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Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary
go back
go back phrasal verb [ goes back going back went back gone back gone back ] RETURN 1. <E > to return • That restaurant was terrible - I'm never going back there again. • I'll have to go back for my umbrella. • Do you think you'll ever go back to London? • When do you go back to school? • Let's go back to the beginning and start again. • We can always go back to the original plan if necessary. Thesaurus+: ↑Returning to a place • After six months of chopping and changing, we've decided to go back to our old system. • We realized we had taken the wrong road and had to go back. • "I'm never going back to him, " she said, setting her jaw firmly. • Do you ever go back to any of our old stamping grounds? • I'll just turn the car round and go back the way we've come. 2. to be returned • When are these library books due to go back? • That TV will have to go back to the shop - it hasn't worked properly ever since I bought it. Thesaurus+: ↑Swellings and lumps ORIGIN 3. to have existed since a time in the past • Their relationship goes back to when they were at university together. • Our house goes back to (= has existed since) the 18th century. Thesaurus+: ↑Existing and being ↑Continue and last Main entry: gophrasal verb
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