come round—(also: come around)
1. pay a short visit:
- Why don’t you come round and see us one evening?
2. take place; happen regularly:
- The Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference comes round next month.
3. regain consciousness:
- The girl fainted, but she came round when we threw drops of water on her face.
4. agree to smth. in the end:
- After a day of our haggling about the matter, Jane finally came round to my point of view.
go round—(also: go around)
1. be publicly noticed doing smth.:
- You can’t go round saying nasty things like that about him in public.
2. (of news, rumors, etc.) be passed on from person to person:
- Stories have been going round concerning the government’s secret intentions.
3. (of food, etc.) be distributed to everybody:
- Money becomes tight and, maybe, the loans available from the banks are insufficient to go round.