come around—(also: come round)
1. pay a (short) visit:
- Well, come around and see us once in a while when you get lonesome.
2. take place; happen regularly:
- These questions come around quite often; I get numerous mails on a regular basis from people.
3. regain consciousness:
- I must have blacked out again because when I came around this time, I found myself outside.
4. agree to smth. in the end:
- Having a mind of her own made Nina a challenge to live with … but she finally came around to see my point of view.
go around—(also: go round)
1. be publicly noticed doing smth.:
- You can’t go around saying nasty things like that about him in public.
2. (of news, rumors, etc.) be passed on from person to person:
- There was a weird story going around that James had been virtually forced out of the house.
3. (of food, etc.) be distributed to everybody:
- If there is not enough to go around let the dictum “children first” be the guiding principle.