turn the clock back
If you try to turn the clock back, you want things to be the way they were in the past.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Sadness and regret
- a heavy heart idiom
- be/weigh on your conscience idiom
- bitter
- bring a lump to/have a lump in your throat idiom
- broken-hearted
- gloom
- gloomy
- guilt
- guilt complex
- guilt trip
- guilt-ridden
- guilt trip
- lament
- melancholy
- mourn
- rue
- rue the day idiom
- rueful
- sackcloth
- sad
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