bounce back
verb1
Idiomatic To recover from a negative situation without seemingly any damage.
- We thought he'd die from the crash, but he bounced back to normal after 10 days in hospital.
- Chelsea bounced back from the disappointment of losing at Wolves in midweek to end City's 21-game unbeaten league run stretching back to April, and a sequence of 14 unbeaten games away from home.2018 December 8, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 0 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport:
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- The current Coronavirus pandemic has obviously had an effect on the line's traffic, but I have little doubt that the numbers will bounce back sooner or later because the ELL has proved too vital a link for both business and leisure travel.2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, page 49:
2
Internet Of an email message, to be returned to the sender because it is undeliverable.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bounce, back.
- Derived terms
- bounceback, bouncebackability, bouncebackable