go back
phrasal verbgo back
- if two people go back a period of time (usually a long time), they have known each other for that time
- Dave and I go back twenty years.
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- when the clocks go back at the end of summer time, the time on them is changed so that it is one hour earlier
- Don't forget—the clocks go back tonight.
go back (to…)
- to return to a place
- She doesn't want to go back to her husband (= to live with him again).
- This toaster will have to go back (= be taken or sent back to the shop it was bought from)—it's faulty.
- Of course we want to go back some day—it's our country, our real home.
go back (to something)
- to consider something that happened or was said at an earlier time
- Can I go back to what you said at the beginning of the meeting?
- Once you have made this decision, there will be no going back (= you will not be able to change your mind).
- to have existed since a particular time or for a particular period
- Their family goes back to the time of the Pilgrim Fathers.