circle back

Language: en

Meaning: (intransitive,idiomatic)Toreturnto a previouslocationorstate; tocome backto.I have tocircle backto the office to pick up a few things.2019December 2, Lauren Beale, “Elvis Presley's Palm Springs honeymoon home circles back on the market”, inLos Angeles Times‎[3], archived fromthe originalon28 February 2020:Well, a Palm Springs property known as Elvis Presley's honeymoon retreat hascircled backon the market at $3.2 million – the same price as early this year.2020February 19,Laura Lippman, “The NYT Spelling Bee Gives Me L-I-F-E”, inSlate‎[4], archived fromthe originalon27 October 2022:My goal is to hit "Amazing" by 7 a.m., which allows me tocircle backto the puzzle all day, pick, pick, picking until I hit "Genius."2022August 31, Sarah Harrison Smith, quotingSara Horowitz, “Striking a Work-Life Balance”, inThe New York Times‎[5], archived fromthe originalon17 June 2022:We eat dinner at 6 every day. I'm not proud of this, but Icircle backto my work after dinner to get done what I need to do.; (intransitive,idiomatic,corporatejargon)Toreturnto aprevioustopicofdiscussion; tobring upagain.We're out of time right now, but we cancircle backon this tomorrow.2018August 17, Catherine E. Shoichet, quoting Lee Gelernt, “The US deported hundreds of parents without their kids. Should those parents be brought back?”, inCNN‎[6], archived fromthe originalon6 October 2022:It seems the phone numbers may be inoperative and some people may be in hiding, so I think we're going to becircling backwith the government to check those numbers.2018December 17, Marshall Shepherd, “The Meteorology Of Life-Threatening Waves Along The U.S. West Coast”, inForbes‎[7], archived fromthe originalon6 December 2022:I willcircle backto the meteorology of this event in a moment.2020, Samantha Jayne, “Surviving the Office” (1:20 from the start), inQuarter Life Poetry‎[8], season 1, episode 3, spoken by Samantha Jayne (Samantha Jayne):“Breathe a minute. Relax. Say the magic words: you need to take a beat, and then you'llcircle back.”2022May 26, Tess Owen, “Police Left Texas Shooter in a Classroom Full of Kids for About an Hour and Refuse to Say Why”, inVICE‎[9], archived fromthe originalon22 July 2022:"We willcircle backon that" was all Victor Escalon of the Texas Department of Public Safety had to say at a press conference Thursday when asked what, exactly, police were doing between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. while an armed man was inside an elementary school classroom killing children.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seecircle,‎back.2019September 19, “Into the blue yonder: Bald eagle soars away after rehab stay”, inCBC News‎[10], archived fromthe originalon9 May 2017:When it was released from its cage Monday, the bird gracefullycircled back, almost in a half moon, before disappearing into the sky.

Examples:

EN: - Why don't you circle back?
ES: - ¿No puedes volver atrás?
EN: - I told you to quit thinking. Get whatever is in the safe, head for the border and then circle back here.
ES: Coged lo de la caja, dirigíos a la frontera y volved dando un rodeo.
EN: Get whatever is in the safe, head for the border and then circle back here. - Is that plain?
ES: Coged lo de la caja, dirigíos a la frontera y volved dando un rodeo.
EN: I'll circle back and bring them into your range of fire.
ES: Aprovechen para beber. Daré la vuelta y les tenderemos una emboscada.
EN: We'll circle back to the trade routes.
ES: Hacia las rutas comerciales. ¡Adelante!
EN: Cut over to the left and circle back.
ES: Ve por la izquierda y da la vuelta.
EN: We'll circle back to pick up the captain.
ES: Daremos la vuelta para recoger al capitán.
EN: Would you draw a circle back there right around the area of the heart?
ES: Quiere dibujarme un circulo en la zona del corazón?
EN: You'll have to circle back.
ES: Deben dar la vuelta.
EN: circle back around the lake and pick up the dirt road over there.
ES: Si tomamos por el lago llegaremos antes ahí.
EN: Anyone crossing the line early by so much as an inch... will have to circle back and start again.
ES: Si alguien atraviesa la línea de salida aunque sea un centímetro... tendrá que dar la vuelta y volver a comenzar.
EN: I'm going to circle back.
ES: ¿Me seguía? ¿Por qué?
EN: I've got to circle back!
ES: ¡Tengo que volver en círculo!
EN: It was gonna circle back and kill us both.
ES: lba a dar la vuelta y a matarnos.
EN: Let's circle back.
ES: Demos la vuelta.

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