Come around! Let's find out what this phrasal verb means today!
Hello my friends and welcome to English Mania! My name is Antonia Romaker
and today we'll ponder over another amazing English phrasal verb - to come around.
Notice that we can say come round or come around, both variants are possible.
So let's get down to business. To come around can have several meanings.
Firstly it can mean to change your mind, to change your opinion about something,
and as the result probably agree with somebody or something.
So to change your opinion, come around.
Don't worry your mom will come around and let you go to this party.
She'll come around, don't worry, she'll let you go.
Hmmm, he'll come around to my point of view eventually. He'll change his mind, he'll come around.
Now an example from the TV show of The Big Bang Theory where this phrasal verb is used
in this particular meaning.
I'm sure I can get Bernie to come around.
So I'm sure that I can make her change her mind, I can persuade her.
I can get Bernie to come around, change her mind.
And then the answer is I knew it I knew she was behind this.
Another phrasal verb, to be behind something when you made it happen,
you are the reason for something to happen then you are behind something.
Come around can also mean to be conscious again after you were out,
after an operation or you probably have fainted.
And then you come around, you wake up.
So to come around, to become conscious again after an accident or an operation.
She hasn't come around yet after an operation or an accident,
or after she had fainted. So she hasn't come around yet.
A nurse was with me when I came around after the operation.
I had an operation once and when I came around there were several people around,
a doctor and the nurse and everything was fine.
It was just... it hurt a lot.
And there's one more meaning left, to come around or to come around can mean to visit to come by.
And now an example from the TV show Everybody Hates Chris. I love this show by the way.
Since there weren't a lot of men around women on the block
were always coming around when my mother wasn't home.
So they were trying to steal her man.
Since there weren't a lot of men around women on the block
were always coming around when my mother wasn't home.
Okay, that's it about this phrasal verb, let's sum up.
It can mean to change your opinion, to come around.
It's like you don't want to have anything to do with someone and then you come around,
you change your mind.
The second meaning is to become conscious again
after an operation or an accident, or after you have fainted.
So you come around, you wake up.
And thirdly come around can mean to visit, to come by. Hey!
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