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carry back

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carry someone back (to some time)
to return someone, mentally, to a former time; to remind someone of an earlier time. This carries me back to the times of knights and jousting. This article about the Sixties really carries me back.
See also: back, carry

carry something back

to take something back to where it came from. Did you bring this here? If so, carry it back. Please carry back the empty box after you take out all the books.
See also: back, carry
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To be able to carry back to their far homes the boast that they had seen the man who could command the sun, riding in the heavens, and be obeyed, would make them great in the eyes of their neighbors, and envied by them all; but to be able to also say they had seen him work a miracle themselves -- why, people would come a dis- tance to see THEM.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
This drawer I beg of you to carry back with you to Cavendish Square exactly as it stands.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
They will spread the story of our victory far and wide, and while they are with us, we will let them see and hear many other wonderful things which they may carry back to their friends and their chiefs.
Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
 
 
 
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