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wind back the clock
vb. (context idiomatic English) Figuratively to return in time to an earlier period of history.
Usage examples of "wind back the clock".
Then she realized that she could use it to realize the dream that she had cherished as a child, wind back the clock and take the road in life from which she had turned away for all the wrong reasons.
Susan would never have the chance to wind back the clock and be the violinist that she had dreamed of being when she was a girl, so it seemed real and true to Martie that from this gift born of death should come a life set right.