go back to

Meaning

1. Oxford65% of films

   to return to a place

2. Oxford30% of films

   to start doing sth again that you had stopped doing

   What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off Mob dealers? No, no.

   then we'll go back to doing things the old way. How about that?

3. Oxford5% of films

   to consider sth that happened or was said at an earlier time

In the movies · 31

• - You never went back to it? - Yeah, but I couldn't stick it.Key Largo1948
• What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off Mob dealers? No, no.The Dark Knight2008
• then we'll go back to doing things the old way. How about that?The Imitation Game2014
• Go back to sleep.Room2015
• Go back to bed.Nebraska2013
• Go back to class.A Monster Calls2016
• Go back to work.Speak2004
• Go back to Africa, nigger!Gangs of New York2002

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

• root for
• turn back
• go without
• take it out on
• take up
• add to
• move over
• care for
• get down to
• reach out to
• get around
• stick together