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hark back
verb
go back to something earlier
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This harks back to a previous remark of his

• Syn: ↑return, ↑come back, ↑recall
• Hypernyms: ↑denote, ↑refer
• Hyponyms: ↑recur, ↑go back
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s PP

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intransitive verb
1. of a hunting dog : to retrace a course until a scent is regained
2.
a. : to turn back to an earlier topic or circumstance

hark back … to a passage already quoted — Susanne K. Langer

don't hark back to the old days unless you can be amusing about them — Agnes Rogers

b. : to go back to something as an origin or source

archaisms that hark back to the early days of colonialism — C.J.Crowley

this proposition harks back to Locke and Smith — Quarterly Journal of Economics

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hark back
To revert to, or be reminiscent of (an earlier topic, etc)
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Main Entry: ↑hark

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mention or remember something from the past

if it was such a rotten vacation, why hark back to it?

Origin:
originally a hunting term, used of hounds retracing their steps to find a lost scent

Useful english dictionary. 2012.