what goes around comes around
English
Alternative forms
- what go round come round
- what goes round comes round
- what comes around goes around
Proverb
what goes around comes around
- A person's actions, whether good or bad, will often have consequences for that person.
- 2020, Ava Max, Madison Love, Måns Wredenberg, Noonie Bao, Cirkut, and Linus Wiklund (lyrics and music), “Who's Laughing Now”, in Heaven & Hell, performed by Ava Max:
- So lonely in your bed / Does breakin' me make you feel good? / Guess you don't understand / What goes around, comes around
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Translations
actions have consequences
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See also
- golden rule
- boomerang
- come full circle
- fuck around and find out (vulgar)
- karma
- old sins have long shadows
- play stupid games, win stupid prizes
- reap what one sows
- skeleton in the closet
- sow the wind, reap the whirlwind
- the chickens come home to roost