look back

verb

1. to cast one's mind to the past

2. to become increasingly successful

   after his book was published, he never looked back

3. to pay another visit later

Idioms and Phrases

Remember or think about the past, as in When Mom looked back on the early days of their marriage, she wondered how they'd managed with so little money . [Late 1500s]

not look back ; never look back . Never show signs of interrupted progress, never return to past circumstances. For example, Once he'd won the Pulitzer Prize, he never looked back . [Late 1800s]

Example Sentences

As the truck started rolling up the driveway, Oscar looked back at Roz and barked, “You smell like cow patties!”

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“If Democrats are complaining about … what Justice Newby is doing, they ought to look back at what happened when they had the votes to change things.”

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Ahead of a concert scheduled for Thursday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, the 47-year-old looked back on the experience as she sipped hot water and munched discs of raw ginger.

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And that comparison will suit Jetten fine, as many Dutch now look back warmly on the stability of the Rutte years, after two years of relative turmoil.

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"I'm always a believer in timing. I look back to the Euros and yeah, I wish I could have played more, I wish I could have helped more," she told BBC Radio 5 Live.

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Related Words

• commemorate 
• get 
• learn 
• recall 
• recognize 
• relive 
• remind