look back
— phrasal verb with look uk/lʊk/us/lʊk/verb
B2 to think about something that happened in the past:
When I look back I can see where we went wrong.
It wasn't such a bad experience when I look back on it.
More examples
- When I look back, I'm filled with sadness.
- He looked back on his time as president with pride.
- One day we'll look back on this and laugh.
- When you look back on this in a year or two, it won't seem so bad.
- Looking back, I admit I didn't always do the right thing.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Remembering, reminding and reminders
- a blast from the past idiom
- aide-mémoire
- be engraved on sb's memory/mind idiom
- be etched on/in sb's memory idiom
- be your epitaph idiom
- clock
- echo
- imprint
- indelible
- jog sb's memory idiom
- keepsake
- let's see idiom
- pat
- recall
- ring a bell idiom
- souvenir
- stamped on sb's memory idiom
- stick in sb's mind/head/memory idiom
- store
- take sb back
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