hark back to sth
(REPEAT) — phrasal verb with hark /hɑːk/
/hɑːrk/ verb [I] old use (also hearken)Definition
› If someone harks back to something in the past, they talk about it again and again, often in a way that annoys other people: He's always harking back to his childhood and saying how things were better then.Remembering, reminding and remindersQuoting and making references
(Definition of hark back to sth (REPEAT) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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hark back to sth phrasal verb (BE SIMILAR)
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Synonyms and related words:
- a blast from the past idiom
- aide-mémoire noun
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- be etched on/in sb's memory idiom
- be your epitaph idiom
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- resonate verb (HAVE QUALITY/EFFECT)
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