look back
verb- To think of (past events) in retrospect (in hindsight). · Near-synonyms: recollect, recall, remember· When I look back at my summer holidays as a child, I smile.
- To reconsider or regret. · You do what you have to do, and don't look back.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, back.
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On the very night after his capture the aneurism burst, and he was found in the morning stretched upon the floor of the cell, with a placid smile upon his face, as though he had been able in his dying moments to look back upon a useful life, and on work well done.
Now I’ll look back.
But I’ve put my hand to the plow and I won’t look back.”
Anne stood and watched Diana out of sight, mournfully waving her hand to the latter whenever she turned to look back.
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