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Meaning of put the clock back | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To change the time in a time zone to an earlier time, e.g. for the end of daylight saving time.
idiomatic, intransitive
To put something back to the state it was in a previous era.
idiomatic, intransitive

Examples

“Don't forget that this Sunday we put the clocks back an hour.”

“He wants to turn the clock back to the 1950s.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

put the clock forward put the cork back in the bottle put the dead wood on put the fear of God into put the feedbag on put the frighteners on someone