turn back
phrasal verbturn back | turn somebody/something back
- to return the way you have come; to make somebody/something do this
(使)原路返回,往回走 - The weather became so bad that they had to turn back.
天气变得非常恶劣,他们不得不循原路折回。 - (figurative) We said we would do it—there can be no turning back.
我们说过要干这事,不能反悔。 - Our car was turned back at the border.
我们的汽车在边境被挡了回来。
- The weather became so bad that they had to turn back.