take sb back
— phrasal verb with take uk/teɪk/us/teɪk/verb took, taken
(PARTNER)
to allow a partner who previously left your home because of a disagreement or another relationship to come back to live with you:
His wife said she would never take him back.
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Making & accepting apologies
- absolution
- afraid
- atonement
- conciliate
- cut
- excusable
- excuse
- excuse/pardon my French! idiom
- forge
- forgiving
- make it up to sb idiom
- mend
- mend your fences idiom
- overlook
- pardon (me) idiom
- recompense
- reconcile
- repentant
- sink
- unrepentant
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(MEMORY)
If something takes you back, it makes you remember a period or an event:
That piece of music really took me back (to my schooldays).
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Remembering, reminding and reminders
- a blast from the past idiom
- aide-mémoire
- be engraved on sb's memory/mind idiom
- be etched on/in sb's memory idiom
- be your epitaph idiom
- clock
- echo
- imprint
- indelible
- jog sb's memory idiom
- keepsake
- let's see idiom
- pat
- recall
- retrospect
- ring a bell idiom
- shade
- souvenir
- stamped on sb's memory idiom
- stick in sb's mind/head/memory idiom
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