carry (one) back
carry (one) back
To cause one to think of or remember someone or something from one's past. Wow, that lullaby just carries me back to my childhood.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
carry someone back (to some time)
to return someone, mentally, to a former time; to remind someone of an earlier time. This carries me back to the times of knights and jousting. This article about the Sixties really carries me back.
See also: back, carry
carry something back
to take something back to where it came from. Did you bring this here? If so, carry it back. Please carry back the empty box after you take out all the books.
See also: back, carry
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- carry back
- break one's neck, to
- be/go back to square one
- echo back to
- back over
- back over (someone or something)
- back to square one
- come back and see us
- a while back
- come back