Look back verb phrase
To talk or think about something in the past
I don't want to look back on that horrible accident, but my mind just keeps wandering back to it.
Looking back, I admit I was wrong in the arguement with my mom.
Yesterday, when I looked back on the break-up, I regarded it as the best thing that happened to me.
The verb "look" must be conjugated according to its tense.
This phrase dates from the late 1500s.