English Explanatory Dictionary

what goes around comes around

English dictionary entry

Meanings

proverb
  1. A person's actions, whether good or bad, will often have consequences for that person.
  2. Things repeat in cycles.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

what goes around comes around what go round come round what goes round comes round what comes around goes around

Etymology

First attested in the 1950s in sense 1, originally in African-American English.

Related words

bite in the arse bite in the ass boomerang circular firing squad come back to bite come back to haunt come full circle fuck around and find out golden rule history repeats itself karma old sins have long shadows play stupid games, win stupid prizes reap what one sows skeleton in the closet sow the wind, reap the whirlwind the chickens come home to roost
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