go back

Meaning

1. Oxford45% of films

   to return to a place

2. Editorial20% of films

   to return to a previous activity, role, habit, or way of doing something

3. Oxford5% of films

   to have existed since a particular time or for a particular period

In the movies · 430

• I don't want to go back to Argentina ever.Gilda1946
• It's nice and quaint, but I want to go back to Frisco.The Lady from Shanghai1947
• If you had all that here, why would you wanna go back to Puerto Rico?West Side Story1961
• Go on, go back outside. Go back, go back.First Man2018
• Go back. You go back.United 932006
• Go, go, go, go! Back up! Go back! Go back!Transformers: Age of Extinction2014
• Go back, go back.The Descendants2011
• Wait, go back.Arrival2016

Learn it in full scenes

• United 932006
  • Passengers Board United 93
  • The FAA Morning Briefing
  • A Controller Reports a Possible Hijack

From the same entry

• anything goes
• as people, things, go
• be going on
• be going to do
• don't go doing
• enough to be going on with
• go all out for
• go and do
• go off on one
• go on
• a lot, nothing, going for you
• no go

More phrasal verbs

• come from
• look at
• fuck off
• think about
• get out
• come back
• piss off
• shut up
• sit down
• go on
• get back
• go ahead