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to come around

to come around

35 2.7
To happen again at a usual time, for example every year
  • phrasal verb
  • /kʌm əˈraʊnd/
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  • The flu vaccine season seems to come around quicker and quicker every year.
  • the season comes around
  • come around again
  • the time comes around

Here's what I hate when the tray come around and it's communion.

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Examples

  • And then Thursday comes around, I felt a lot better.

  • Until the weekend comes around.

  • And the third test came around and she passed.

  • So once better things came around, I was out of there.

  • You know, As Saturday came around, I was nervous but also very excited.

  • Another chance will come around, the way winter always gives in to spring.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • Things will always come around again if you give them time.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • So by the time, February comes around, I'm a free man.

  • Stock market crashes like this don't come around that often.

  • The flu vaccine season seems to come around quicker and quicker every year.

Synonyms

to come
vsto come around
1.0

Happen or become known after some time

is for events that occur again regularly as part of a cycle
to recur
vsto come around
68 5.7

Happen again, often after some time

is about a regularly scheduled event returning in a cycle
to roll around
vsto come around
  • Informal
13 3.2

To come again at the usual time, for example each year

is the exact same recurring event meaning but uses a different verb form
to reoccur
vsto come around
3 3.8

Happen again after some time

is used for events that return regularly as part of a cycle

How Often

to recur
68 5.7
to come around
35 2.7
to occur
770 2.0
to happen
1.0

Surface Forms

come around infinitive
come around past participle
coming around present participle
comes around third person singular

Morphology

come + around

The meaning 'to occur again as part of a regular cycle' is directly derivable from combining 'come' (arrive) with 'around' (in a circular/recurrent sense), so a learner who knows the constituents can infer 'arrive/happen again'. Although 'come around' has other senses (e.g., change opinion, regain consciousness), the cyclical 'happen again' reading follows a transparent compositional pattern found in many languages.

Etymology

Come around uses the words come and around like a clock or the seasons moving in a circle and returning. That's why it means 'to happen again' on a regular cycle.