to think about a time or event in the past
used for saying that someone achieved something special and then became even more successful
All they need do is look back at the way union militants have helped ruin whole industries in the past.
Being digitally dumped might feel brutal at the time, but it's the way to stop looking back and move on.
But it is not one that looks back with any fondness to the craziness of the 1960s.
But one day we may look back and think it was very big indeed.
Catch up with what we are going to be looking back on.
England have had eight years to realise that looking back on past glories is no way to guarantee future success.
Hopefully we can look back at this one, take the positives and move on.
Hopefully we're not going to look back and think these draws have cost us promotion.
I took the art college offer and have never looked back.
If you get stuck looking back you end up getting left behind.
It also triggered this whole new batch as well which seems to be about looking back wistfully and with some regret.
Looking back it was unfair of me to have asked him.
Looking back over the past few months he very much regretted not taking notice of his early warning signs.
Looking back, me getting a record deal at the age of 14 was insane.
Most people look back on their school days with fondness.
She has not looked back since getting the club's backing.
She now looks back in horror at her old diet.
So can he look back and laugh about the experience of making Precious now?
The founder of one big asset manager sighed as he looked back over the past six months.
They say it takes two years until you can look back and actually think about the person you have lost without sadness.
Those are the nights and days you look back on fondly.
We have many more things to worry about rather than look back at what happened four years ago.
We have to look back at the way Spurs bought and sold players during the summer and understand what their masterplan was meant to be.
We will only know who is right when we look back in about 30 years.
Whereas both themes are central to our theology, one looks back while the other looks forward.
You look back and you think how you didn't enjoy them.
You're always going to look back and cringe at things.
looks back
looking back
looked back
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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