Emotions & feelings

bring it all back

make someone remember vividly

If something brings it all back, it makes someone remember a past experience very clearly and emotionally.

B2 common mostly spoken

expression

Hear it in real life

Why are you smiling at that photo?

It brings it all back - our first summer together.

Play the conversation

Seeing that old playground brought it all back for me.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: That smell brought back it all for me.

Say: That smell brought it all back for me.

Keep the pronoun "it" before "all" in the fixed phrase "bring it all back."

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

bring it all back for someone; it brings it all back

Your turn: say it out loud

Seeing that old playground brought it all back for me.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

bring it all back

make someone remember vividly

“Seeing that old playground brought it all back for me.”

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