turn the clock back

turn the clock back  {v. phr.}
To return to an earlier period.
Mother wished she could turn the clock back to the days before the children grew up and left home.
Will repealing the minimum wage for workers under age eighteen turn the clock back to the abuses of the last century?
Categories: verb
Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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