go backwards

“I never dreamed that we might, as a town, go backwards,” says Fortier, 39, who works in a local law office.

Rep. John Olver (D-MA): “We cannot afford to go backwards on domestic violence.”

For a man to try to crawl out in stiff burberrys appeared as futile as for a porcupine to try to go backwards up a canvas hose.

The desert stands still; to go fast in it is to go backwards.

I shall get work here and you must go backwards and forwards with the team.

But I can go backwards and forwards through the islands and Norfolk Island during the five winter months.

Many of my friends go backwards and forwards to England all the time, but when I return, I should like to stay.