hark back

[hark back] {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./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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