full circle
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4.1
- noun
- /fʊl ˈsɜrkl/
:
cerrar el círculo
- The story's ending brought everything full circle, connecting back to the beginning in a meaningful way.
- come full circle
- bring full circle
- full circle now
And it's just a real full circle for me to be here in this moment.
- And it's just a real full circle for me to be here in this moment.
- It truly gives my purpose a full circle moment and it is so cool to see.
- So this is the this is really brings the lecture full circle.
- Then circling back to ASOS, we've done a full circle.
- This is the most full circle you'll ever hear story ever.
- So it's kind of nice to see that full circle for him, you know, so.
- But it is absurd how truly full circle life can be.
- And so part of coming back full spectrum or full circle to the to the fire theme.
- And another full circle moment, Coach Landing was at Georgia.
Examples
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And, before you knew it, life had come full circle.
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Destiny always has a way of bringing things full circle.
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And all of that brings us full circle to my experience.
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And so then basically brings us back full circle to where we started.
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Like this is such a full circle moment here.
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And it's just a real full circle for me to be here in this moment.
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And to me, that is the full circle of life.
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Everything has brought us full circle.
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Notice that we have come full circle in our investigation of this topic.
Academic text (2004) -
In a curious way, history has come full circle in the present day
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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5.2
To return to the original place or situation after many changes
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9.2
The point when a situation returns to its starting point
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase evokes the image of a complete revolution — a 'full' 'circle' — which can suggest returning to the starting point, so there is a visible compositional link to the MWE meaning. However, its use to describe life events or situations returning to an original state is a metaphorical extension that may not be fully predictable to a B1 learner without prior exposure. Because the relation is partly transparent but relies on metaphorical inference (and cross-linguistic equivalents vary), it is best classified as semi-transparent.
Etymology
Full circle comes from the image of walking all the way around a circle until you are back where you started. The word full shows you made the whole turn, so the phrase means 'having returned to the original point or situation'.