flash back
phrasal verbflash back (to something)
- if your mind flashes back to something, you remember something that happened in the past
- Her thoughts flashed back to their wedding day.
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- if a film flashes back to something, it shows things that happened at an earlier time, for example at an earlier part of somebody’s life related noun flashback (1)
- to reply very quickly and/or angrily