what goes around comes around

proverb One's actions or behavior will eventually have consequences for one, even if indirectly. The phrase typically refers to one being a victim of the same negative circumstances that they have inflicted on others. Russ picked on me back in high school, and now he has his own bully. What goes around comes around.

See also: around, come, goes, what

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

What(ever) goes around, comes around.

Prov. The results of things that one has done will someday have an effect on the person who started the events. So he finally gets to see the results of his activities. What goes around, comes around. Now he is the victim of his own policies. Whatever goes around comes around.

See also: around, come, goes, what

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

what goes around comes around

1. When people say what goes around comes around, they mean that if you behave in a bad way, bad things will eventually happen to you, and if you behave in a good way, good things will eventually happen to you. If they do something wrong, they believe that what goes around comes around. I just think what goes around comes around, and I'm hoping that in the past I've done something for somebody and it's come back to me.

2. People say what goes around comes around to mean that things that go out of fashion later come back into fashion. In fashion what goes around comes around, and men are now wearing 1920's style trousers. These ideas are similar to those being suggested forty years ago. What goes around comes around.

See also: around, come, goes, what

Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

what goes around comes around

the consequences of your actions will have to be dealt with eventually. proverb

See also: around, come, goes, what

Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

what ˌgoes around ˈcomes around

(saying) the way somebody behaves towards other people will affect the way those people behave towards them in the future: I feel a little sorry for her but I guess she never helped anyone and what goes around comes round.

See also: around, come, goes, what

Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

what goes around comes around

A person’s bad deeds will earn revenge; also, what has happened before will recur. According to the linguist Margaret G. Lee (American Speech, winter 1999), this expression originated as an African proverb and came into general use via African-American speech. Kevin Cullen used it in an article about the failed peace-keeping efforts in Kosovo: “But what goes around always comes around in the Balkans, and today Albanians are exacting their revenge, killing Serbs” (Boston Globe, April 22, 2000). Jon Cleary, in Dilemma (1999), wrote, “When I was young, condoms were for stopping pregnancies. Then they tell me, sales fell right away when the Pill came in. Now the condom is back as armour-plating [against infection]. What goes around comes around.”

See also: around, come, goes, what

The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer

See also:

as one door closes, another (one) opens
as one door closes, another one opens
as one door closes, another opens
give (someone) an inch and (someone) (will) take a mile
give (someone) an inch and (someone) (will) take a yard
drive (one) out of office
force (one) out of office
force out of office
give (one) (one's) head
give someone their head

References in periodicals archive

Plastic Mouldsman also said: "There's a Bob Marley album released in 1996 called 'What Goes Around Comes Around'.

'Sick' and 'offensive' Topman '96' t-shirt removed from sale; Liverpool fans accusing it of mocking victims of the Hillsborough disaster

After all, Peter scorned his sometime inamorato, David Orchard, and Belinda's act of treachery could be seen simply as proof that what goes around comes around. In any case there is no appeal; a broken heart is the last wrong for which the Charter of Rights provides no remedy; as a wise English judge once said: "to affairs of the heart, the king's writ does not run." In playing the betrayer, Belinda cast herself in a drama as old as Eve in the Garden.

The natural governing party

However, what goes around comes around. Eventually, the overstocking of salmon led to a precipitous decline in the alewife population, and starving salmon began washing up on the same beaches that had been littered with alewife several decades earlier.

Lakes in crisis

There is an old saying: 'What goes around comes around'.

Letter: Camilla's 'triumph

Williams admits that it was tempting, but told the next day's Kalispell Daily Inter Lake, "I believe what goes around comes around. I would have felt guilty keeping it." The pair flagged down a Flathead County deputy sheriff who was driving by at the time and gave the bag and its contents to him.

Lost and found

Anthony Rivers's Everybody Got Issues and Darrien Lee's What Goes Around Comes Around.

Zane, Inc.: she has much more on her mind than black erotica. Behind the best-selling author's pseudonym is a shrewd businesswoman, astute publishing entrepreneur and--oh, yes--a wife and mother of four

Have you heard the saying, "What goes around comes around"?

Should You Turn In a Cheater?

Some of the stories included statements such as "what goes around comes around," which reinforce the basic idea behind immanent justice.

Older isn't wiser in moral reasoning

What goes around comes around, as those of us who have been through a few real estate cycles can attest to.

Musical chairs is no game to tenants

Senator Saeed Ghani said that Nawaz Sharif is a very clear example of what goes around comes around. What Nawaz Sharif had done to Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari in the past is now haunting him.

Nawaz Sharif is an accused: Saeed Ghani

He said what goes around comes around as Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leadership has been using foul language against political opponents in the past and now face the same from others.

Shahbaz has not learnt anything from past: Saeed Ghani

| WHAT goes around comes around. And, if what's going around your home and bathroom is Rituals' new Ritual of Karma collection (from PS8.50) you can only be sharing lovely, joyous things with others.

BEAUTY BUZZ; THE LATEST PRODUCTS AND GLAMOUR GOSSIP

"Lizbeth Lou Got a Rock in Her Shoe" is loosely based on the revolutionary notion that what goes around comes around. This message is subtly reinforced by the creative cut paper silhouette scenes in serene sepia shades.

Lizbeth Lou Got a Rock in Her Shoe

EASTENDERS (BBC1, 8pm) WHAT goes around comes around, and Max really should know that by now.

WE LOVE SOAPS

What goes around comes around? 3 I'M appointing Alex Salmond as honorary president of my Save the SNP 6 campaign.

POINTS OF DISORDER

词组	what goes around comes around
释义	what goes around comes around what goes around comes around proverb One's actions or behavior will eventually have consequences for one, even if indirectly. The phrase typically refers to one being a victim of the same negative circumstances that they have inflicted on others. Russ picked on me back in high school, and now he has his own bully. What goes around comes around. See also: around, come, goes, what Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. What(ever) goes around, comes around. Prov. The results of things that one has done will someday have an effect on the person who started the events. So he finally gets to see the results of his activities. What goes around, comes around. Now he is the victim of his own policies. Whatever goes around comes around. See also: around, come, goes, what McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. what goes around comes around 1. When people say what goes around comes around, they mean that if you behave in a bad way, bad things will eventually happen to you, and if you behave in a good way, good things will eventually happen to you. If they do something wrong, they believe that what goes around comes around. I just think what goes around comes around, and I'm hoping that in the past I've done something for somebody and it's come back to me. 2. People say what goes around comes around to mean that things that go out of fashion later come back into fashion. In fashion what goes around comes around, and men are now wearing 1920's style trousers. These ideas are similar to those being suggested forty years ago. What goes around comes around. See also: around, come, goes, what Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. what goes around comes around the consequences of your actions will have to be dealt with eventually. proverb See also: around, come, goes, what Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary what ˌgoes around ˈcomes around (saying) the way somebody behaves towards other people will affect the way those people behave towards them in the future: I feel a little sorry for her but I guess she never helped anyone and what goes around comes round. See also: around, come, goes, what Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary what goes around comes around A person’s bad deeds will earn revenge; also, what has happened before will recur. According to the linguist Margaret G. Lee (American Speech, winter 1999), this expression originated as an African proverb and came into general use via African-American speech. Kevin Cullen used it in an article about the failed peace-keeping efforts in Kosovo: “But what goes around always comes around in the Balkans, and today Albanians are exacting their revenge, killing Serbs” (Boston Globe, April 22, 2000). Jon Cleary, in Dilemma (1999), wrote, “When I was young, condoms were for stopping pregnancies. Then they tell me, sales fell right away when the Pill came in. Now the condom is back as armour-plating [against infection]. What goes around comes around.” See also: around, come, goes, what The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: as one door closes, another (one) opens as one door closes, another one opens as one door closes, another opens give (someone) an inch and (someone) (will) take a mile give (someone) an inch and (someone) (will) take a yard drive (one) out of office force (one) out of office force out of office give (one) (one's) head give someone their head References in periodicals archive Plastic Mouldsman also said: "There's a Bob Marley album released in 1996 called 'What Goes Around Comes Around'. 'Sick' and 'offensive' Topman '96' t-shirt removed from sale; Liverpool fans accusing it of mocking victims of the Hillsborough disaster After all, Peter scorned his sometime inamorato, David Orchard, and Belinda's act of treachery could be seen simply as proof that what goes around comes around. In any case there is no appeal; a broken heart is the last wrong for which the Charter of Rights provides no remedy; as a wise English judge once said: "to affairs of the heart, the king's writ does not run." In playing the betrayer, Belinda cast herself in a drama as old as Eve in the Garden. The natural governing party However, what goes around comes around. Eventually, the overstocking of salmon led to a precipitous decline in the alewife population, and starving salmon began washing up on the same beaches that had been littered with alewife several decades earlier. Lakes in crisis There is an old saying: 'What goes around comes around'. Letter: Camilla's 'triumph Williams admits that it was tempting, but told the next day's Kalispell Daily Inter Lake, "I believe what goes around comes around. I would have felt guilty keeping it." The pair flagged down a Flathead County deputy sheriff who was driving by at the time and gave the bag and its contents to him. Lost and found Anthony Rivers's Everybody Got Issues and Darrien Lee's What Goes Around Comes Around. Zane, Inc.: she has much more on her mind than black erotica. Behind the best-selling author's pseudonym is a shrewd businesswoman, astute publishing entrepreneur and--oh, yes--a wife and mother of four Have you heard the saying, "What goes around comes around"? Should You Turn In a Cheater? Some of the stories included statements such as "what goes around comes around," which reinforce the basic idea behind immanent justice. Older isn't wiser in moral reasoning What goes around comes around, as those of us who have been through a few real estate cycles can attest to. Musical chairs is no game to tenants Senator Saeed Ghani said that Nawaz Sharif is a very clear example of what goes around comes around. What Nawaz Sharif had done to Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari in the past is now haunting him. Nawaz Sharif is an accused: Saeed Ghani He said what goes around comes around as Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leadership has been using foul language against political opponents in the past and now face the same from others. Shahbaz has not learnt anything from past: Saeed Ghani \| WHAT goes around comes around. And, if what's going around your home and bathroom is Rituals' new Ritual of Karma collection (from PS8.50) you can only be sharing lovely, joyous things with others. BEAUTY BUZZ; THE LATEST PRODUCTS AND GLAMOUR GOSSIP "Lizbeth Lou Got a Rock in Her Shoe" is loosely based on the revolutionary notion that what goes around comes around. This message is subtly reinforced by the creative cut paper silhouette scenes in serene sepia shades. Lizbeth Lou Got a Rock in Her Shoe EASTENDERS (BBC1, 8pm) WHAT goes around comes around, and Max really should know that by now. WE LOVE SOAPS What goes around comes around? 3 I'M appointing Alex Salmond as honorary president of my Save the SNP 6 campaign. POINTS OF DISORDER
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