flash back
— phrasal verb with flash uk/flæʃ/us/flæʃ/verb
If your mind or thoughts flash back to something that happened in the past, you suddenly remember it:
Her mind flashed back to the day of their divorce.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Memory and memories
- at/in the back of your mind idiom
- back
- clear
- corporate memory
- dim
- déjà vu
- eidetic
- flash
- from memory idiom
- go
- haunting
- live
- nostalgia
- nostalgic
- off the top of your head idiom
- photographic memory
- recollection
- remembrance
- rote
- within your memory idiom
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