hark back
hark back definitions
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To allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event).
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To return to where one has previously been; to retrace one's steps.
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To call back (hounds); to recall.
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Of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
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An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
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An act of alluding, returning, or reverting (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, an act of evoking, or longing or pining for (a past era or event).