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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• freshen up something
• freshen yourself up
• fresh from
• fresh from something
• fresh from somewhere
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• fresh out of something
• friend in need.
• friend in need is a friend indeed.
• friends in high places
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• frighten out of wits
• frighten someone out of their wits
• frighten someone out of wits
• frighten someone to death
• frighten the daylights out of
• frighten the daylights out of someone
• frighten the hell out of
• frighten the hell out of someone
• frighten the life out of
• frighten the life out of someone
• frighten the living daylights out of
• frighten the living daylights out of someone
• frighten to death