drag up
Revive old memories
To drag up something is to mention or revive it, usually when it would be better left forgotten: Why do you have to drag up that old argument?
The phrase suggests reluctance or effort, as if pulling something heavy from the past.
In British informal use, to be dragged up means to be raised poorly or without proper care: He wasn't brought up, he was dragged up.
Lift or increase
- broachIntroduce a subject
- introduceMake formally known
- referenceDirecting attention elsewhere
- alludeRefer indirectly
cite · invoke · rehash · revisit · reopen · revive · touch on · harp on
Recall past experiences fondly
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- recollectionRecalled mental image
- pastTime already gone
bring back · childhood · bygone · yesteryear · retrospect · anecdote · recall · painful memories
raise
Lift or increase
allude · cite · invoke · rehash · revisit · reopen · revive · touch on · harp on · belabor
reminisce
Recall past experiences fondly
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- recollectionRecalled mental image
past · bring back · childhood · bygone · yesteryear · retrospect · anecdote · recall · painful memories · old wounds
fish out
Extract by searching
excavate · unearth · exhume · extract · hoist · dredging · seabed · wreckage · sunken
scandal
Disgraceful public affair
expose · smear · muckrake · tabloid · accusation · allegation · old news · bury · skeletons · closet
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