Dic: hark back to

hark: [Old-fashioned] to listen; pay attention: hark, the cocks are crowing

.... Collins Essential

hark back to:

1. PHRASAL VERB

If you say that one thing harks back to another thing in the past, you mean it is similar to it or takes it as a model.

• pitched roofs, which hark back to the Victorian era.

2. PHRASAL VERB

When people hark back to something in the past, they remember it or remind someone of it.

• The result devastated me at the time. Even now I hark back to it.

... Cobuild

hark(en) back to something:

1. to have originated as something; to have started out as something. (Harken is an older word meaning "pay heed to.")

• The word icebox harks back to refrigerators that were cooled by ice.
• Our modern breakfast cereals hark back to the porridge and gruel of our ancestors.

2. to remind one of something.

• Seeing a horse and buggy in the park harks back to the time when horses drew milk wagons.
• Sally says it harkens back to the time when everything was delivered by horse-drawn wagon.

... McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs,

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