Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is turn/put back the clock and its meaning is “to return to the previous/past conditions; to go back to an earlier method of doing things”.
Example Sentence: What Putin wants, in effect, is to turn the clock back to the 1990s, before former Warsaw Pact countries such as Poland and ex-Soviet republics such as Estonia joined Nato. If he had his way, he would probably reconstitute the Soviet Union, whose demise he mourns.
This word is present in The Guardian article The Observer view on the year ahead for Europe and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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