look back

look back
intransitive verb
1) sich umsehen; (fig.): (hesitate) zurückschauen

he's never looked back since then — seitdem läuft bei ihm alles bestens

2) (cast one's mind back)

look back [up]on or to something — an etwas (Akk.) zurückdenken

* * *
look back
vi
1. (glance) zurückblicken, zurückschauen
to \look back back [on [or over] [or at] sth] auf etw akk zurückblicken
3.
sb never \look backed back (fam) für jdn ging es bergauf
she never \look backed back after that first exhibition nach jener ersten Ausstellung ging es für sie immer bergauf
he released his first CD last year and has never \look backed back er veröffentlichte letztes Jahr seine erste CD und verzeichnet seitdem nur Erfolge
* * *
vi
sich umsehen; (fig) zurückblicken (on sth, to sth auf etw acc)

he's never looked back (fig inf) — es ist ständig mit ihm bergauf gegangen

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look back v/i
1. sich umsehen
2. auch fig zurückblicken, -schauen (beide:
[up]on, to auf akk):
look back in anger im Zorn zurückblicken
3. since then he has never (oder not) looked back fig seitdem hat er ständig Fortschritte gemacht, seitdem ist es ständig mit ihm bergauf gegangen
* * *
intransitive verb
1) sich umsehen; (fig.): (hesitate) zurückschauen

he's never looked back since then — seitdem läuft bei ihm alles bestens

2) (cast one's mind back)

look back [up]on or to something — an etwas (Akk.) zurückdenken

* * *
v.
umsehen v.

English-german dictionary. 2013.

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