come round

come round
or[come around] {v.} 1. To happen or appear again and again in regular order. * /And so Saturday night came around again./ * /I will tell him when he comes round again./ 2. {informal} To get back health or knowledge of things; get well from sickness or a faint./ * /Someone brought out smelling salts and Mary soon came round./ * /Jim has come around after having had stomach ulcers./ 3. To change direction, * /The wind has come round to the south./ 4. {informal} To change your opinion or purpose to agree with another's. * /Tom came round when Dick told him the whole story./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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