be going round in circles

Otherwise we will be going round in circles without tackling the real problem.

Perhaps they were going round in circles, would still be in here when night came again.

I was going round in circles because it's a very small world - pimps and prostitutes.

He appears dazed and is going round in circles.

Christ, he was going round in circles.

For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time.

His thoughts were going round in circles.

The federalists are going round in circles.

My mind is going round in circles.'

I am going round in circles."

Now she was not orientated at all and for all she knew she could have been going round in circles.

This means we have to start by blowing up the origin, but this reproduces the original singularity, so we seem to be going round in circles.

By Winterfest he would probably still be going round in circles somewhere, she thought-if he had not been tortured to death by a band of ferocious goblins.

I agree with other posters though - these discussions have been going round in circles- we should have a referendum soon, or at least a programme of mature and transparent debate and consultancy.

Because this is a disproportionate conflict in which the law is ineffective, we will have to simply get used to it, otherwise we will just be going round in circles and using words which are not backed up by reality.

However this argument seems to be going round in circles: in order to eliminate a double point of the first disc, we need to construct a second embedded disc, whose construction involves exactly the same problem of eliminating double points.

Then, exasperated by her own confusion, and the fact that they seemed to be going round in circles, Ellie demanded, 'Feargal, just tell me what it is you want to know - what, in fact, we're supposed to be talking about!'