look back

British  

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

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look back Idioms  

1. 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]

2. 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]

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Example Sentences

Then suddenly to stop back and look back and be like, “Oh, what an awful thing. What awful things he did. He couldn’t see what he was doing.”

From Los Angeles Times

"I look back to 2002-03, we were 4-0 down and won in Sydney. I learnt a lot about the next few years from winning that one game," said Vaughan.

From BBC

"The motivations and aims of these detractors can be investigated by others. I prefer to look back on my career at Celtic with deep gratitude and satisfaction."

From BBC

“The city and the county did a lot of things that we would look back at and say was very unfortunate,” she told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s hard to look back on that time.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

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