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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. look back to think of or remember what has happened in the past We raised three kids and worked full-time – sometimes I look back and wonder how we did it. Usage notes: often used with at or on: Now we look back at the late 1940s as the good old days. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And the best time to do this, is to look back upon anger, when the fit is thoroughly over. Even to look back at the past is horrible, for it contains sorrow that breaks my very heart at the thought of it. 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. |
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