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Meanings of
hark back
in English
Go back to something earlier.
return
recall
come back
Usage of
hark back
in English
1
But there is something atavistic in me; I
hark
back
to unconstitutional monarchs.
2
These
hark
back
to the most primitive instincts of the vertebrates.
3
Let us now
hark
back
to the blue-cow, beautiful and breathless.
4
Men die in transit, and, dying,
hark
back
to early days.
5
If she isn't, we must
hark
back
to the first plan.
6
To
hark
back
to days when education was a local service is hardly archaic.
7
Those phrases
hark
back
to an earlier presidential election, which took place in 1968.
8
Liz Kendall says his ideas
hark
back
to the 1980s.
9
I must
hark
back
,
however, and continue my narrative from where I dropped it.
10
But I don't have to
hark
back
to Switzerland and Holland for cheese memories.
11
And shall we grieve over or
hark
back
to dreams?
12
Look hard, and
hark
back
.
-
Is
that
the room you recollect?
13
So, if you don't very particularly much mind, we'll
hark
back
to before yesterday.
14
Although the rainy season was over, the day seemed to
hark
back
to reeking June.
15
I think, if I were you, I should
hark
back
upon some place in Ireland.
16
Yearningly did St. Angé womankind
hark
back
to it.
Other examples for "hark back"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
This collocation consists of:
hark
back
hark
Verb
Adverb
Hark back
through the time
Hark back
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common