come full circle
to return to the same situation or attitude you originally had

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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.

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.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

come full circle
to be completely opposite from one's starting point
The university has come full circle with its policy on foreign students.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

come full circle
v. phr., informal
1. To become totally opposed to one's own earlier conviction on a given subject.
Today's conservative businessperson has come full circle from former radical student days.
2. To change and develop, only to end up where one started.
From modern permissiveness, ideas about child raising have come full circle to the views of our grandparents.

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