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"Put back the clock" nghĩa là gì?
31 Dec, 2019
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"Put/turn back the clock" nghĩa là quay lại thời kỳ đã qua; đi ngược lại bánh xe lịch sử; ngăn chặn sự phát triển.
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AN Irish couple ditched Christian tradition to put back the clock 5,000 years and hold a pagan wedding ceremony on their local beach.
The American writer Stephen Crane was particularly disparaging (chê bai, xem thường), claiming: “That man put back the clock of English fiction fifty years”.
Federer, who breezed past Canadian Peter Polansky in the second round on Wednesday, looked lost in the opening set, spraying balls long, wide or into the net, but gradually rediscovered at least some of the form that has seen the 36-year-old Swiss put back the clock with two grand slam wins this year.
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