Examples of use of put the clock back
1. Evelyn Waugh once complained that the Conservative party had failed to put the clock back by one minute.
2. Now she did: "If only I could put the clock back." She hated what she had put us all through.
3. Mr Mitchell criticised the government and the prime minister for pursuing Conservative ideals that he said would put the clock back 50 years.
4. While Oxford and Cambridge and other leading universities already require tests for law and medicine, the heads insist that a proliferation of tests would put the clock back by favouring independent pupils.
5. They want to put the clock back in time. [Asharq Al–Awsat] Is there a message that you would like to send to the Islamic world? [Khalili] Both we and the Islamic world are busy coping with problems and with disasters.