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come full circle

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come full circle
Fig. to return to the original position or state of affairs. The family sold the house generations ago, but things have come full circle and one of their descendants lives there now.
See also: circle, come, full

come/go/turn full circle
if something or someone has come full circle after changing a lot, they are now the same as they were at the beginning My career has come full circle and I am back at the school where I started out as a teacher thirty years ago. In the meantime her opinions have gone full circle and she has decided to rejoin the party.
See also: circle, come, full

come full circle
to return to the same situation or attitude you originally had I left publishing, tried teaching, and now I've come full circle back to publishing.
Usage notes: also used in the form bring something full circle: The film starts in the present, then moves to the past before bringing the story full circle back to the present.
See also: circle, come, full


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What started as a few friends getting together in a Chelsea apartment, where Danial Shapiro and Joanie Smith would dance to the music of Smith's sister, Soozie Tyrell, and Tyrell's best friend, Patti Scialfa, has come full circle 20 years later.
``I was always up to no good,'' he says, ``So it's come full circle.
Downtown, which had come full circle over the past six years -- becoming a true 24/7 community -- is now in full reverse mode.
 
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