Phrase info

come full circle

Speech parts

1. come full circle - Verb

2. come full circle - Phrase

Meaning

(idiomatic) To make a complete change or reform.

(idiomatic) To complete a cycle of transition, returning to where one started after gaining experience or exploring other things.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place. Scott Stapp

The wheel is come full circle. William Shakespeare

English Poetry has come full circle from the widest public appeal, the communal poetry of ballads to the narrowest possible, in the present day as the poet addresses himself. Herbert Read

I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley. George Clinton

It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me. Bipasha Basu

I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle. Carla Bley

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