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come around
Recover consciousness, be restored to a normal condition, as in The smelling salts quickly made her come round . [Mid-1800s]
Make a circuit; also, arrive casually or visit. For example, The milkman comes around every day at this time , or You should come round more often . [Early 1800s] Also see come by , def.
Change in a favorable way, as in I was sure you would come around and see it my way . [Early 1800s]
Idioms and Phrases
Also, come round .Example Sentences
“And it certainly contributed to my absolutely crippling nerves for the first couple of months that we shot. I just was so aware that opportunities like this don’t come around a lot.”
"She came around when I started screaming," she said.
When you do something different, it takes time, but people will come around.
“Even at the precinct, she comes around the corner, and some cops are like, ‘Oh, come on.
“The vicar came around and he said some prayers, some of them I think were in Latin,” he said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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