turn the clock back.

[Kati Svaby]

English Language Tests, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #78 "Tick Tock", question 3

I'm afraid you can't make yourself any younger and turn the clock ..........

(a) to
(b) by
(c) back
(d) down

English Language Tests, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #78 "Tick Tock", answer 3

I'm afraid you can't make yourself any younger and turn the clock back.

Correct answer: (c) back
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I'm afraid you can't make yourself any younger and turn the clock back.

I think HERE means that :
1.she/he can't turn back the march/progress of time. Is it right?

2.'turn the clock back 'synonym with 'put the clock back' when the hands of clock are moved back because the time officially changed
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[Our Tort System]

"To turn the clock back" is an idiom.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/turn+the+clock+back

Here it is used in sense #2:
To try to return to the past.
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[Kati Svaby]

I agree with this expression:

try to return in the pass

but isn't this expression synonym with: You can't turn back the march of time / You can't turn back the progress of time?

Can't I say this to anybody who wants to make herself any younger and believe she can turn the clock back?
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

[Kati Svaby]

Hello Tort,

In the evening I am always slow thinker than in the morning.
I remember that yesterday evening I was thinking of a Hungarian very old saying. It didn't come in my mind. If I had remembered it I would have written this. I remember now. Better late than never.
We can't turn back the wheel of time.
Today I wrote in the Google and I saw in the Wikipedia there is this title: Wheel of Time (WoT)- of course not than a Hungarian saying. In Hungarian meaning: You can't turn back the wheel of time.
There is a sentence from it:
"At the dawn of time, a deity known as the Creator forged the universe and the Wheel of Time, which, as it turns, spins all lives."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time

Bye:
Kati
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.