what goes around comes around
what goes around comes around proverb: a person's actions, whether good or bad, will often have consequences for that person.
Proverb
what goes around comes around
- A person's actions, whether good or bad, will often have consequences for that person.
- So lonely in your bed / Does breakin' me make you feel good? / Guess you don't understand / What goes around, comes around2020, Ava Max, Madison Love, Måns Wredenberg, Noonie Bao, Cirkut, Linus Wiklund, “Who's Laughing Now”, in Heaven & Hell, performed by Ava Max
- Things repeat in cycles.
- Unfortunately, the main proposal in the current XML era bears a striking resemblance to the CODASYL proposal from the early 1970’s, which failed because of its complexity. Hence, the current era is replaying history, and “what goes around comes around”. Hopefully the next era will be smarter.2005, Michael Stonebraker, Joseph M. Hellerstein, “What Goes Around Comes Around”, in Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker, editors, Readings in Database Systems, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 2
- The most important one is the end of the Ajax hype. I’m not sure when it will happen, but I know that it will. What goes around comes around—what once was cool and modern will become old hat and boring.2006, Peter-Paul Koch, “Afterword”, in ppk on JavaScript, →ISBN
what goes around comes around meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Persian
what goes around comes around in Hindi
- actions have consequences
- जैसा कर्म करोगे वैसा ही फल मिलेगा jaisa karm karoge vaisa hī phal milegā
what goes around comes around in Tamil
- actions have consequences
- திணை விதைத்தவன் திணை அறுப்பான் tiṇai vitaittavaṉ tiṇai aṟuppāṉ, வினை விதைத்தவன் வினை அறுப்பான் viṉai vitaittavaṉ viṉai aṟuppāṉ
what goes around comes around in Arabic
- actions have consequences
- كَمَا تَدِينُ تُدَان kamā tadīnu tudān
what goes around comes around in Persian
- actions have consequences
- از هر دست بدهی از همان دست میگیری az har dast bedahi, az hamân dast migiri, خلایق هرچه لایق xalâyeq harče lâyeq
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- what goes around comes around in Thai
- กงเกวียนกำเกวียน gong-gwiian-gam-gwiian, กรรมใดใครก่อ กรรมนั้นคืนสนอง gam-dai-krai-gɔ̀ɔ gam-nán-yɔ̂m-kʉʉn-sà-nɔ̌ɔng, กรรมตามสนอง gam-dtaam-sà-nɔ̌ɔng, ให้ทุกข์แก่ท่าน ทุกข์นั้นถึงตัว hâi-túk-gɛ̀ɛ-tân túk-nán-tʉ̌ng-dtuua
- what goes around comes around in Vietnamese
- ác giả ác báo, gieo nhân nào gặt quả nấy
Forms of what goes around comes around
| alternative form | what go round come round |
|---|---|
| alternative form | what goes round comes round |
| alternative form | what comes around goes around |
Origin of what goes around comes around
First attested in the 1950s in sense 1, originally in African-American English.
Questions about what goes around comes around
- What does what goes around comes around mean?
- What goes around comes around means a person's actions, whether good or bad, will often have consequences for that person.
- What is what goes around comes around in Hindi?
- What goes around comes around in Hindi is जैसा कर्म करोगे वैसा ही फल मिलेगा (jaisa karm karoge vaisa hī phal milegā). See What goes around comes around meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is what goes around comes around?
- What goes around comes around is a proverb.
Words near what goes around comes around in the dictionary
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