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单词 to come full circle
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to come full circle
1. So as to complete a circle or (with reference to the turning of a wheel, esp. the wheel of fortune) a full rotation; (hence) so as to return to a starting point or complete a cycle. Esp. in to come full circle.In earlier examples after Shakespeare's use: see quot. a1616.
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1594 I. G. tr. G. di Grassi True Arte Def. sig. Dd2 If one would needes false an edgeblowe, let him do it with the false edge of the sword, then turning it in full circle [It. uoltar il tondo], to deliuer home the edgeblowe.]
a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) v. iii. 165 The Wheele is come full circle [1608 circled, 1619 circkled], I am heere.
1749 T. Smollett Regicide ii. ix. 29 Ha! then the Wheel Of Fate full Circle rolls to crush me down!
1795 Oracle 4 Apr. The sale of M. de Calonne's pictures is a memorable instance that the ‘Wheel of Fortune comes full circle’.
1811 Lit. Panorama Sept. 558 Recollecting the necessity..that the wheel should ‘come full circle’; and that the end will crown the work.
1838 R. W. Emerson Addr. Divinity Coll. 31 I look for the new Teacher, that shall follow so far those shining laws, that he shall see them come full circle; shall see their rounding complete grace.
1842 Southern Q. Rev. July 132 Insisting that social distinctions are a great mistake, and that when all things ‘come full circle’, there will be no such thing as high and low.
1904 Westm. Rev. Dec. 599 Before he died, Sir William had the happiness to see that the wheel had come back nearly full circle.
1918 Times 5 June 5/7 The remarkable development by which an apparently increasing section of the German Socialist Majority has gone full circle and practically become Pan-German.
1989 R. Banks Affliction iv. 51 Two centuries after Major Parker's purchase of Parker Mountain from the Abenaki Indians, proprietary rights had come full circle.
2013 New Yorker 30 Sept. 12/1 In February, two bartenders from Belfast..took the revival of bespoke cocktails full circle with their feisty Victorian-era parlor.
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