put back the clock

Idioms  

1. see set back, def. 3.

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Example Sentences

He said the broadcaster “accepts it cannot put back the clock and wishes to express its genuine remorse for the harm it has caused” Mr. McAlpine.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2012

But we may not put back the clock, and, if by differentiation we lose something, we gain much.

From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen

Shall we have to put back the clock for an hour, in order to foil the designs of your impalpable foe?

From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Stenson waited on us, grave and imperturbable as if we had put back the clock of time a twelvemonth.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John

It is entirely logical, and no more marvellous, that science should be able to arrest senescence, put back the clock.

From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn