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go back

Speech parts

1. go back - Noun

2. go back - Verb

Meaning

belong to an earlier time

regain a former condition after a financial loss

return in thought or speech to something

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go-back

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Examples

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. Marcus Aurelius

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward. Dan Quayle

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President. Charlie Chaplin

At the end of the game, the pawn and the king go back in the same box. Italian Proverb

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. Italian Proverb

One cannot go back to the farmer from whom one borrowed seed-yams to plant to say that the beetles have eaten up the seed-yams. Nigerian Proverb

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