flash back (to someone or something)

flash back (to someone or something)
flash back (to someone or something)
to return briefly to a view of someone or something in the past. (In films, literature, and television.) •

The story suddenly flashed back to Tom when he was a child.

The story flashed back to Tom's childhood.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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