pull round

verb

pull round

verb
1

To recover; to return to normal.

  • There could be no doubt in my mind that all this had taken place the previous evening – for one thing, I should have been a great deal hungrier even than I was had it been longer ago. Very well, what was this, then? Had the whole hospital, the whole city made such a night of it that they'd not pulled round yet?1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 14:

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