bring to mind (someone/something)

to cause you to think of someone or something.

Something about her face brings to mind my first-grade teacher.

My daughter said the story brought her relationship with me to mind.

Usage notes: also used in the form call to mind:

He asked how I knew and I couldn't call it to mind at the time.

Related vocabulary: bring back something

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• a leg up on
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