what goes around comes around

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谚语
  1. 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 around
  2. 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.

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词源

First attested in the 1950s in sense 1, originally in African-American English.
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