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come full circle

  1. When something “comes full circle,” it completes a cycle, returns to its beginnings: “The novelist's vision of human life has come full circle — from optimism to pessimism and back to optimism again.”


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Idioms and Phrases

Also, go full circle . Complete an entire cycle; return to the original position or condition. For example, After a whole year of debate we have come full circle on this issue . Shakespeare may have originated this expression in King Lear (5:3): “The wheel is come full circle.” A 20th-century idiom with a similar meaning is what goes around comes around , as in I knew if I helped her now, she would help me later—what goes around comes around .
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Example Sentences

Julio had come full circle and had returned to Cuba as a tourist in his own country.

Of the Make-A-Wish Foundation children, he is the only person to have everything come full circle for him.

By the time she withdrew from the race in June following the final primaries, her campaign had come full circle.

With Beginners, which also stars Ewan McGregor, it seems Plummer has come full circle.

As she embraces Barb's new church—with its feminist foundation—the audience sees that Sarah's journey has come full circle.

So does the wheel come full circle and all our lives we are mythopoeists.

The wheel of understanding between Eglington and herself had come full circle, and there was an end.

The year had come full circle; it was time that Mutimer received another remittance from his anonymous supporter.

We had both come full circle these last few hectic weeks on Earth.

The hunters had become the hunted, the wheel had come full circle, and the woes of David Crawfurd were being abundantly avenged.

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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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