put the clock back
turn the clock back
turn back the clock
set back the clock , also: rewind the clock

I cannot imagine how anyone would wish to put the clock back.

But it's done, and now all the Palestinians are trying to do is put the clock back.

While many youngsters have such impulses, this one was also able to put the clock back together.

What was it about the past that made them and the First Family want to put the clock back?

"But that would be putting the clock back," gasped the governor.

Let us put the clocks back to December 1995.

She put the clock back where it belonged, returned the doll and the bear to the bed.

After all, one can't really put the clock back.

She is trying to put the clock back.

Anyway, even if one wanted to, one couldn't put the clock back to an earlier age.

It would put the clock back to 1975, when the hated wage stop was finally abolished.

They want to put the clock back to the days of Ivan the Terrible.

Its about time you put the clock back, so to speak, and started to enjoy life again without feeling any guilt.'

How about a 'publication of the report on not putting the clocks back' public holiday?

I put the clock back into the bag, and walked past the fire exit doors to the bank of utility boxes.

If that were to be the outcome, it would mean putting the clock back not twelve years, but a hundred years.

First, as to putting the clock back.

For what war-aim can Halifax, or anyone like him, conceivably have, except to put the clock back to 1933?

Trying to put the clock back and fight the industrial battles of 20th century is barmy.

We do the best we can, but in a way it's a pity we can't put the clock back.

They were therefore accused of putting the clock back and bringing the best hope of Christendom to an impasse.

The elder sisters put the clocks back and closed the windows, to trick Nastenka.

"I should have liked to ask you not to cheapen our name any more, but I suppose that would be putting the clock back.

We're djue to put the clocks back on the coming Saturday and that means that next week it'll be dark by this time.

There is one metaphor of which the moderns are very fond; they are always saying, "You can't put the clock back."

Just for a moment, turn the clock back to 1970.

We need to turn the clock back, I often think.

People who want to turn the clock back, make things the way they used to be again.

I felt like I'd turned the clock back and had a second chance.

First, it is too late to turn the clock back.

It's pretty clear he wants to turn the clock back on a lot of things.

It was like they turned the clock back a hundred years.

How many who have children wish they could turn the clock back?

"But I am not going to vote for something that would actually turn the clock back."

This is simply an attempt to turn the clock back.

He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

Has someone turned the clock back 100 years and forgotten to tell me?

"Once the 28 years was up, you could just turn the clocks back again," he said.

In the end, though, they turned the clock back, all the way to another era.

Then Thompson turned the clock back to make it legal.

But you feel as if someone turned the clock back 30 years."

"In some ways it could turn the clock back on education.

"But with culture, they can turn the clocks back more easily."

However, the impression is that it will be difficult to turn the clock back.

Turn the clock back and not go into that room."

He would soon discover that it was far too late to turn the clock back.

So they try to escape by turning the clock back.

"There is a longing to turn the clock back and see what can be learned."

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

No Democratic successor is going to be able to "turn the clock back."