Idiom Breakdown

blast from the past

COLLOQUIAL Nostalgia

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Definition

Something or someone that a person has not seen for a long time that evokes nostalgic feelings.

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"Now there's a golden oldie, a blast from the past, when the heavyweight division was still strong and vibrant and unified (...)"
"In the process, he managed to make the Republican tax cut sound like a blast from the past."
""Ellie!" he shouted. "What a blast from the past! This is just like old times, when you used to walk in that very door!""
"But their early celebration was interrupted by a blast from the past: gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell's controversial 1989 graduate-school thesis (...)"

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