Idiom
ghost from one's past
Meaning
Something unpleasant from one's past that "haunts" them (makes them feel uneasy) to the present day.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That old mistake is a ghost from my past.”
“Seeing my old rival at the party felt like facing a ghost from my past.”
“He spent years trying to outrun his mistakes, but every failure felt like a ghost from his past returning to demand an account of his actions.”
Examples
simple
“That old mistake is a ghost from my past.”
contextual
“Seeing my old rival at the party felt like facing a ghost from my past.”
complex
“He spent years trying to outrun his mistakes, but every failure felt like a ghost from his past returning to demand an account of his actions.”
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