go around and around

1. Literally, to move in a circle. I've been going around and around the parking lot, and I still can't find my car. It's musical chairs, so you kids go around and around until the music stops. I hate carnival rides that go around and around like that—they usually make me sick to my stomach.

2. By extension, to progress in a circuitous, indirect fashion, without an end or satisfactory result. We've gone around and around with the insurance company, and they still haven't paid our claim. Look, we're just going around and around at this point. Let's put a pin in the issue and come back to it another time. He is determined to misunderstand me, so that's it—I'm done going around and around with him.