Reach
Reach verb - To shift possession of (something) from one person to another.
Turn back
Turn back verb - To drive back.
Both terms in one sentence
- The Scorpion Men who guard the underground tunnel that the sun uses to reach the other side of the Earth every night tell him to turn back and get over it.
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He continues to press on his original planned path rather than turn back and go to where he first sent Frank and Mandy, where there is a radio, buildings to hide out in, and is a shorter trek than the path he has the group take to reach civilization.
Source: Film / Day of the Animals - As they are too far out now to either reach their destination or turn back, their only hope is to search for an oxygen-bearing planet to harvest some plants for oxygen production before it's too late.
Source: Almost Out of Oxygen
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