roll back

Idioms and Phrases

Decrease, cut back, or reduce, especially prices, as in Unless they roll back oil prices, this summer's tourist traffic will be half of last year's . [c. 1940]

Example Sentences

They roll back the sidewalks precisely at ten, And the people who live there are not seen again.

From The Daily Beast

During his campaign, de Blasio promised to roll back Bloomberg Administration policies on public charter schools.

From The Daily Beast

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and activists on the left and the right are taking action to roll back imprisonment rates.

From The Daily Beast

Yet so far there have been no high-profile efforts to roll back the 2008 legislation.

From The Daily Beast

Then he suddenly summoned the Vatican Council II, whose reforms the Curia and recent popes have in effect sought to roll back.

From The Daily Beast

When I stopped, he would roll back with a grunt of profound satisfaction, bat one eye at me affectionately, and go to sleep again.

From Project Gutenberg

His head is over his shoulder all the way as we roll back to the city under the beautiful trees of the palace grounds.

From Project Gutenberg

It was only with a great effort that he managed at last to roll all the way over; and then he couldn't roll back again.

From Project Gutenberg

The gates did roll back, the heavens were broken up, new spiritual heights were shown to me, up which my spirit mounted.

From Project Gutenberg

They pause, mounting higher and higher; they dance wildly, then roll back towards us; too evidently back.

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Related Words

• abate
• curtail
• decrease
• dilute
• diminish
• dwindle
• ease
• erode
• impair
• lighten
• minimize
• mitigate
• narrow
• shrink
• slacken
• taper off
• weaken