"wind back the clock" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "winds back the clock",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "winding back the clock",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wound back the clock",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wound back the clock",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wind<,,wound> back the clock",
        "head": "wind back the clock"
      },
      "expansion": "wind back the clock (third-person singular simple present winds back the clock, present participle winding back the clock, simple past and past participle wound back the clock)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English predicates",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Time",
          "orig": "en:Time",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 24, John Crosse, “North West Electrics”, in RAIL, number 925, page 62",
          "text": "But wind the clock back some 60 years, and you would find that away from the South East of England, the North West once had the most extensive and varied selection of electric routes in the country.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To return in time to an earlier period of history."
      ],
      "id": "en-wind_back_the_clock-en-verb-LuRU5aNY",
      "links": [
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ],
        [
          "period",
          "period"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, figurative) To return in time to an earlier period of history."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "wind the clock back"
        },
        {
          "sense": "to return to an earlier time",
          "word": "turn back the clock"
        },
        {
          "sense": "to return to an earlier time",
          "word": "turn back time"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-wind back the clock.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8b/En-au-wind_back_the_clock.ogg/En-au-wind_back_the_clock.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/En-au-wind_back_the_clock.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wind back the clock"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "winds back the clock",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "winding back the clock",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wound back the clock",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wound back the clock",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wind<,,wound> back the clock",
        "head": "wind back the clock"
      },
      "expansion": "wind back the clock (third-person singular simple present winds back the clock, present participle winding back the clock, simple past and past participle wound back the clock)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English predicates",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "en:Time"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 24, John Crosse, “North West Electrics”, in RAIL, number 925, page 62",
          "text": "But wind the clock back some 60 years, and you would find that away from the South East of England, the North West once had the most extensive and varied selection of electric routes in the country.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To return in time to an earlier period of history."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ],
        [
          "period",
          "period"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, figurative) To return in time to an earlier period of history."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-wind back the clock.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8b/En-au-wind_back_the_clock.ogg/En-au-wind_back_the_clock.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/En-au-wind_back_the_clock.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "wind the clock back"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to return to an earlier time",
      "word": "turn back the clock"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to return to an earlier time",
      "word": "turn back time"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wind back the clock"
}