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Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings | | English term or phrase: what goes around comes around | | could anybody explain or paraphrase the meaning of this idiom? |
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| | English translation:if you do something to others, other will do it to you | Explanation:
a modern way of saying "Do unto others as you will have them do unto you" although it is often used post factum, i.e. once something bad happens to the person who kept doing bad things to others.
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  Konstantin Kisin
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:36
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5 mins confidence:  Act good and good things will happen, act bad and bad things will happen.
Explanation:
Put simply it means if you do a good deed of any kind then good things will happen to you but if you do anything bad then bad things will happen to you.
| Fan Gao
China
Local time: 17:36
Native speaker of:  Chinese
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Explanation:
What you do to others will eventually be done to you ... usually in the sense of negative actions, rather than positive ones
| Brie Vernier
Germany
Local time: 11:36
Native speaker of: English
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