carry back

Meaning

1. carry sb back (to sth)

   to make sb remember a time in the past

   The smell of the sea carried her back to her childhood.

In the movies · 8

• I had to carry you back.Prey2022
• Julian carefully carrying me back to the bed.National Theatre Live: Prima Facie2022
• His Majesty King George has sent you many gifts, King Tynah. Perhaps I could carry back in return.The Bounty1984
• Y-You carried me back to my room. You put me to bed.The Mighty1998
• I will swim in it if you'll carry the firewood back to camp.Into the Wild2007
• The smell of his "Old Spice" cologne carried me back into that lost childhood more than the home movies did.Arizona Dream1993
• Carry your memory back ten years last winter.Oliver Twist1948
• he and another officer carried him gently back and he made very sure that he kept the body very far away from the wicked woman who had murdered him.Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father2008

Learn it in full scenes

• National Theatre Live: Prima Facie2022
  • Ensler Lets the Witness Talk
  • Ensler Corners the Witness
  • Tessa Comes Home After the Win

From the same entry

• be carried away
• carry all before you
• carry the ball
• carry the can
• carry a torch for
• carry the day
• carry too far
• as fast as your legs can carry you
• fetch and carry
• carry forward
• carry off
• carry on