[hark back] {v.}, {literary} 1. To recall or turn back to anearlier time or happening.
Judy is always harking back to the goodtimes she had at camp.
2. To go back to something as a beginning ororigin.
The cars of today hark back to the first automobiles madeabout 1900.
The slit in the back of a man’s coal harks back to thedays when men rode horseback.
My favourite profession.
Моя будущая профессия экономист на английском.
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Значение идиомы hark back