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

It was inevitable—one can't put back the clock.

From Project Gutenberg

And many, many times as he sighed upon his uneasy pillow did he wish, as so many have wished before and since, that he could put back the clock.

From Project Gutenberg

“Why, you’ve put back the clock a quarter of a century for me, dear,” he declared.

From Project Gutenberg

The crisis in the history of the empire was not destined to fall in his day, nor in the short reign of his cousin and successor, Julian, the amiable and cultured, but entirely wrongheaded, pagan zealot, who strove to put back the clock of time and restore the worship of the ancient gods of Greece.

From Project Gutenberg