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.

• put someone on the shelf
• put someone on the spot
• put someone out of action
• put someone out of its misery
• put someone out of mind
• put someone out of misery
• put someone out of their misery
• put someone out of your mind
• put someone out to pasture
• put someone over knee
• put someone over the top
• put someone over your knee
• put someone's back up
• put someone's mind at ease
• put someone's mind at rest
• put someone's nose out of joint
• put someone through
• put someone through hell
• put someone through hoops
• put someone through paces
• put someone through something
• put someone through their paces
• put someone through the mill
• put someone through the wringer
• put someone to death