"go back in time" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-go back in time.ogg [Australia] Forms: goes back in time [present, singular, third-person], going back in time [participle, present], went back in time [past], gone back in time [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> back in time}} go back in time (third-person singular simple present goes back in time, present participle going back in time, simple past went back in time, past participle gone back in time)
  1. (idiomatic) To talk about history or the past. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: memory lane, turn back the clock
    Sense id: en-go_back_in_time-en-verb-m7Nr8QYW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for go back in time meaning in English (1.8kB)

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