cast back

cast back

1. To return something to its original location. A noun or pronoun can be used between "cast" and "back." If you decide against any of those library books, please cast them back where you found them.
2. To refer or think back to something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "cast" and "back." In the second chapter of your thesis, be sure to cast back to the topics and themes you presented in chapter one. I tried casting my mind back to high school algebra and couldn't remember a thing.
See also: back, cast
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cast something back (some place)

to throw something back somewhere. I cast the fish back in the water. Cast back those stones and all the others you took from the pile.
See also: back, cast
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • ask back
  • orient
  • orient to
  • orient to (something)
  • back into
  • back into (someone or something)
  • involve with
  • involve with (someone or something)
  • involved with
  • arrange for
References in periodicals archive
There will be such brutal cutbacks in services and welfare that Britain will be cast back to the 1930s.
Misery or hope? It's up to you
Sweeping through decades to bring the cast back to a midlife reunion, the author portrays how disappointments in marriage, loss, children, and other events shaped the group.
To Tuscany with Love
So I modified the cast to where I could put a sock on my hand, wrap it in an Ace bandage, and then put the cast back on over that, with some tape to hold it all together.
Classic covers
Layton and her ensemble cast back to perform in the festival the following two years.
Multimedia Variety Show Helps to Increase Bisexual Visibility
"That was the main thing that stuck in my head, and that most QCs have terrible hair because of the wigs they wear in court!" This series of The Jury (there was another run with an entirely different cast back in 2002) sees Walters' character Emma Watts locked in a fierce courtroom battle to free a man convicted for the violent murders of women he met on the internet.
JULIE COURTS LEGAL DRAMA
The REP revisits its theatrical roots with a pairing of two plays starring the same cast back at The Old REP Theatre in September.
Theatre gets out and about across the city
of applied systems, Germany) assuages fears that renewable energy cannot offer a viable option to dwindling fossil fuels, and that that people will be cast back into the Stone Age once the oil and coal are gone.
Renewable energy and climate change
The Hollywood star has admitted the director of the original film, Adam McKay, has found it too difficult to get the original cast back together.
Anchorman sequel put 'on hold'
AFTER a painstakingly slow qualifying process which saw the first line cast back at the start of April, the Fish 'O' Mania final has finally arrived at Cudmore Fisheries, with the plethora of talent desperate to knock reigning champion Mick Bull off his perch.
Form guide looks like a red herring
Now Darren Pattinson and Tremlett, the two standby bowlers for the 10-wicket defeat, have been cast back to their counties.
RESURGENT HARMISON UP TO TEST
Darren Pattinson and Tremlett, the two standby bowlers for the 10-wicket Second Test defeat in Leeds, have been cast back to their counties.
HARMY EARNS RECALL
Leaving by Train: The platform, long and black against the green/Surrounding hills, shines with pools of rain/That cast back the clearing sky in cold, Uncertain blues.
A Matinee in Plato's Cave
DOWN: As house prices in America continue their descent, market watchers are having to cast back ever further for gloomy comparisons.
Up, down and in between
Following the drama of Ceuta and Melilla and the discovery of sub-Saharan migrants cast back into the Moroccan desert, the EU was accused of closing its eyes to the repressive methods employed by southern Mediterranean states.
EU/AFRICA: CONFERENCE ON MIGRATION TO BE STAGED IN EARLY 2006