Idiom
set one's watch back
Meaning
To ponder or experience a past time.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I sometimes set my watch back to remember my childhood.”
“When I visit my old neighborhood, I set my watch back and imagine life as it was twenty years ago.”
“The elderly man would often set his watch back, losing himself in the vivid, bittersweet memories of a summer that had long since faded into history.”
Examples
simple
“I sometimes set my watch back to remember my childhood.”
contextual
“When I visit my old neighborhood, I set my watch back and imagine life as it was twenty years ago.”
complex
“The elderly man would often set his watch back, losing himself in the vivid, bittersweet memories of a summer that had long since faded into history.”
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