retrace your steps
C2 to go back to a place in the same way that you came:
She walked straight past her office and then had to retrace her steps.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Returning to a place
- backtrack
- call
- call back
- come
- come back
- double
- double back
- get back
- go
- go back
- not darken sb's door idiom
- reappear
- regain
- rejoin
- resume
- retrace
- return
- snap
- turn
- turn (sb) back
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