(harks, harking, harked)
• hark back to
1.
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.
PHRASAL VERB: V P P n
2.
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.
PHRASAL VERB: V P P n