Question

Select the meaning of the given phrase/idiom.
Look back
A) See backwards
 B)Examine
C)Think of the past
D)Rejoice over some past happening

Answer 1

Hint: An idiom is a set of words, a phrase, or an expression with a nonliteral meaning which often has no relation to its literal meaning.

Complete step-by-step answer:

From the hint given to us, we know the description of an idiom. Hence we can infer that the literal meaning of the given phrase will not be the correct meaning of it. Thus, according to our inference from the hint, option A is wrong. Look back literally means to see backward.
The idiom, look back, could be an inference to the past, where to look back means looking back at the time gone. Examine means to analyze something. Thus, we can say that option B is wrong as it doesn't match the description of the idiom given to us.
‘Think of the past’ seems to be the most suitable meaning of the idiom given to us. I look back, to ‘look’ might mean to think. As we have previously inferred, ‘back’ might mean to look back at the time gone. Hence, we can say that option C is the correct answer.
To rejoice over some past happening is not even a grammatically correct phrase and hence we do not know what it means. Thus, we can say that option D is wrong. The option also has misspelled the word ‘happening’.

Note: We must know the meanings of most of the idioms as not all of them are as figurative as the one given to us in the question.