put the clock back

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

put/turn the clock back idiom
to make things the same as they were at an earlier time
• The court's decision on this case will turn the clock back fifty years.
• If I could turn the clock back and do things differently, I would.
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