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look back (at someone or something) and look back (on someone or something)

1. Lit. to gaze back and try to get a view of someone or something. She looked back at the city and whispered a good-bye to everything she had ever cared for. I went away and never looked back.

2. Fig. to think about someone or something in the past. When I look back on Frank, I do remember his strange manner, come to think of it. When I look back, lam amazed at all I have accomplished.

See also: back, look

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And the best time to do this, is to look back upon anger, when the fit is thoroughly over. The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context Even to look back at the past is horrible, for it contains sorrow that breaks my very heart at the thought of it. Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context			long shot long story short Long time no see long-winded longer longest way round is the shortest way home look look a gift horse in the mouth look a million dollars look about look after look after number one look ahead look ahead to look alike Look alive! look around look around for look around some place look as if butter wouldn't melt in mouth look aside look askance at look at look at cross-eyed look away look back Look before you leap look beyond look daggers at look down look down nose at look down on look fit to kill look for look for high and low look for trouble look forward to look good on paper look here look high and low look in look in on look in the eye look in the face look into look like look like a drowned rat look like a saddle on a sow look like something the cat brought in look like the cat dragged in look like the cat that swallowed the canary			look around look around look around look around look around for look around for look around some place look around you carefully for information or look as if look as if butter wouldn't melt in mouth look as if butter wouldn't melt in mouth look as if butter wouldn't melt in mouth look as if butter wouldn't melt in mouth look aside look askance at look askance at look at look at look at Look At Agency look at closely look at cross-eyed Look at Me Look At Me Button Look At Me Post Look At Me: Do I Look Like I Give A Flip? Look At Source, Erase Retina :-) Look at the Princess look away look away look back look back at look back at look back at look back at Look Back in Anger look back on look back on look back on look back on look back upon look backward look becoming on someone look Before You Book Look before you leap Look before you leap look behind the scenes Look Behind You look beyond look box look daggers at look daggers at look daggers at Look Down Look Down look down nose at look down on look down on look down on look down upon Look Down/Shoot Down

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