hark back Idiom, Proverb
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v.,
literary 1. To recall or turn back to an earlier time or happening.
Judy is always harking back to the good times she had at camp. 2. To go back to something as a beginning or origin.
The cars of today hark back to the first automobiles made about 1900. The slit in the back of a man's coal harks back to the days when men rode horseback.
hark back
hark back Return to a previous point, as in
Let us hark back briefly to my first statement. This expression originally alluded to hounds retracing their course when they have lost their quarry's scent. It may be dying out. [First half of 1800s]
hark(en) aback to (something)
1. To account one to anticipate of or anamnesis something. (The spelling "harken" is absolutely a alternative of the ancient chat "hearken," which originally meant "to listen" but is added frequently acclimated in abode of "hark" in this chatty phrase.) That song harkens aback to an beforehand time in my life.2. To accept originated or amorphous as something. You know, our avant-garde corpuscle phones apprehend aback to those old rotary phones you like to accomplish fun of.3. To revisit or anamnesis article mentioned earlier. Before we get too upset, let's all accept aback to the absolute acumen we're actuality today.Learn more: backhark(en) aback to something
1. to accept originated as something; to accept started out as something. (Harken is an earlier chat acceptation "pay heed to.") The word icebox harks aback to refrigerators that were cooled by ice. Our avant-garde breakfast cereals apprehend aback to the borsch and gruel of our ancestors.
2. to admonish one of something. Seeing a horse and buggy in the esplanade harks aback to the time aback horses drew milk wagons. Sally says it harkens aback to the time aback aggregate was delivered by horse-drawn wagons.Learn more: back, harkhark back
Return to a antecedent point, as in Let us apprehend aback briefly to my aboriginal statement. This announcement originally alluded to hounds retracing their advance aback they accept absent their quarry's scent. It may be dying out. [First bisected of 1800s] Learn more: back, hark