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bounce back
verb
- intr, adverb to recover one's health, good spirits, confidence, etc, easily after a setback
noun
- a recovery following a setback
Idioms and Phrases
Recover quickly, as in She had pneumonia, but she bounced back in less than a week . This expression is a metaphor for the rebound of a ball or some elastic material.Example Sentences
The BBC attempted to make contact with Ticket Maestro using the email address it had used to communicate with customers but it bounced back.
But not putting things into place can lead to devastating consequences that can be tough to bounce back from.
How do India bounce back from historic Test series defeat?
"I really do enjoy being on episodes with other people because you do bounce back, there's other stories that are triggered in your mind and it's nice," she says.
The only team Everton have beaten away this season is Ipswich, so I would not feel confident backing them to bounce back with a win here.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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