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No, but it is common to use 360 to mean "completely different". Random example: https://waynestiles.com/how-to-turn-your-life-around-360-degrees/ https://waynes

• SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
  I'm incredibly confused. That's just a blatant disregard for math. I guess maybe if you change while turning you end up in the same place, changed, but different, and possibly dizzy?
  • retsibsi 8y ago
    Here (Australia) the phrase 'backflip' is sometimes used to deride a politician's change of mind. I guess if there's enough twisting and turning involved, we don't think too hard about the end result when creating these metaphors.
• jlarocco 8y ago
  I don't think it is common. The correct phrase, and what I've always heard, is "180 degrees", meaning "the opposite direction". I can imagine "360 degrees" being used by people who are bad at math or not thinking about it, though. In the article the author really means 360, though, because she's back where she started.
  • edgarvaldes 8y ago
    I dunno about other languages, but in Spanish it is pretty common both the error and the immediate correction by any bystander.