come around (to doing something)

come around (to doing something)
come around (to doing something)
to agree to do something eventually, after a long wait. •

Finally, she came around to painting the kitchen.

She hesitated for a long time, but eventually we got Lynn to come around.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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