English Explanatory Dictionary

you can't go home again

English dictionary entry

Meanings

proverb
  1. Past times which are fondly remembered are irrecoverably in the past and cannot be relived.

Word forms

you can't go home again

Etymology

From the novel You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938), published posthumously in 1940. Wolfe took the title from a conversation with the writer Ella Winter, who remarked to Wolfe: "Don't you know you can't go home again?" Wolfe then asked Winter for permission to use the phrase as the title of his book.

Related words

genie is out of the bottle not in Kansas anymore there's no point crying over spilt milk there is no there there what's done is done yesterday is gone you can't step in the same river twice
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