单词 | come (or turn) full circle |
释义 | come (or turn) full circleReturn to a past position or situation, especially in a way considered to be inevitable: the region is being forced to come full circle and repeat the errors of its tragic past now it seems the wheel has turned full circle—the western is being revived...
With reference to Shakespeare's King Lear v. iii. 165, ‘The Wheele is come full circle’: by association with the wheel represented in mythology and literature as turned by Fortune and symbolizing mutability See parent entry: circle |
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