bring someone or something back
to make someone or something return. (See also bring something back to life.) Would you please bring the child back?Bring back my child!
bring something back
to restore an earlier style or practice. Please bring the good old days back. Bring back good times for all of us.
bring something back (to someone)
to remind someone of something. The funeral brought memories back. The warm winds brought back the old feeling of loneliness that I had experienced so many times in the tropics.
SOURCE: McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (THE FREE DICTIONARY)
get the hang of something (informal)
to succeed in learning how to do something after practising it After three weeks of using this computer I think I've finally got the hang of it.
SOURCE: Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006. Reproduced with permission by The Free Dictionary.
15-01-2012
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