Thread: what comes around goes around

what does that saying mean?
does it mean that if you do somethin good or bad it will come back to you sometime? that eveyting in the world is connected so things we do to other people somehow somewhere can affect our lives?

Что приходит, то и уходит
Что приходит, то проходит

Similiar concepts:

Что посеешь, то и пожнешь.
or just plain-old карма!

Originally Posted by Ustas

what does that saying mean?
does it mean that if you do somethin good or bad it will come back to you sometime? that eveyting in the world is connected so things we do to other people somehow somewhere can affect our lives?

what comes around goes around

It is actually the other way around: What goes around comes around.

full circle, come

Also, go full circle. Complete an entire cycle; return to the original position or condition. For example, After a whole year of debate we have come full circle on this issue. Shakespeare may have originated this expression in King Lear (5:3): “The wheel is come full circle.” A 20th-century idiom with a similar meaning is what goes around comes around, as in I knew if I helped her now, she would help me later—what goes around comes around.

I think we've explained this pretty well and provided several translations, but I just wanted to add that it can have a negative meaning as well. So, if someone steals something, they will have some misfortune befall them, etc.

What goes around comes around... if you commit a bad deed, it will come back to bite you in the end... if you help someone, maybe someone will help you in the same way some day....