What Goes Around Comes Around

[kohlanta]

Does anyone know how to write `what goes around comes around' in Thai?

[meadish_sweetball]

Tham dii, dai dii

Tham chua, dai chua

Do good, receive good

Do evil, receive evil

Not a perfect match perhaps, but works in a few cases and is idiomatic and easy.

I know this topic has been discussed, it is probably buried somewhere in the Thai sayings thread pinned at the top of the Thai language forum main page.

[mangkorn]

กรรมตามสนอง

[DavidHouston]

This same question was dealt with in part in a previous ThaiVisa discussion, http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...9928&st=375

The figurative and almost literal Thai equivalent is กงเกวียนกำเกวียน [gong gwian gam gwian]

The prior post said (edited):

". . . the correct phrase for this idiom is กงเกวียนกำเกวียน

กงเกวียน - wheel of a cart.

กำเกวียน - wheel-spoke.

กงเกวียนกำเกวียน - a simile indicating the inevitability of cause and effect which equivalent to ' vicious circle' in English."

Edward B opined that a better English equivant is "what goes around, comes around."