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Phrase(s): bring someone or an animal back to life [and] bring someone or an animal back
to make someone or some living creature come back to life. • There was nothing that would bring Jimmy’s cat back. It was truly dead. • Not even a magician could bring back the cat., Phrase(s): bring something back to life
Fig. to restore vitality to something, such as a performance, a story, etc. (See also bring someone or an animal back to life.) • The third act of the play had a clever twist that brought the whole drama back to life.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs