go back in time
Return to past
To go back in time is to return to an earlier period, whether literally through the fictional concept of time travel or figuratively through memory, imagination, or revisiting the past: If I could go back in time, I'd tell my younger self to relax.
The phrase often introduces counterfactuals or regrets: You can't go back in time and undo what happened.
- memory laneFigurative path through recollections
- blast from the pastNostalgic reminder from earlier times
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
- rewindReturn to beginning
- do overChance to retry
second chance · if only · past · wormhole · deja vu · nostalgia · counterfactuals · history · butterfly effect · grandfather paradox · homesickness · chronology · wistfulness · anachronistic · recollection · melancholy · yearning · reminiscence
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Advance past something
progress · advance · look ahead · forge ahead · press forward
going, gone, back, backs, backed, backing, backer, backside, backward