hark back
Return to past
Hark back means to recall or return to something from the past.
A design might hark back to the Victorian era, or a politician's rhetoric might hark back to the founding fathers.
The phrase comes from hunting, where hounds are called back to pick up a lost scent.
Now it suggests evoking, recalling, or drawing on earlier times, styles, or ideas.
reminisce
Recall past experiences fondly
memories · recollect · bygone · yesteryear · retrospect · flashback · heritage · tradition · ancestry · origins
return
Go back again
- regressRevert to earlier state
- retrogressDecline to prior condition
- relapseReturn to former illness
backslide · retrace · reverse · rewind · revisit · recur · revive · restore · resurrect · hearken
hark backlook forward
Await eagerly
look ahead · anticipate · foreshadow · foresee · prefigure
hark backbreak new ground
Do something never done
forge ahead · move on · innovate · pioneer · leave behind
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