bounce back

verb

1. (intr, adverb) to recover one's health, good spirits, confidence, etc, easily after a setback

noun

1. 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

After leaving office, Cheney bounced back as a leading conservative critic of the Obama administration.

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The email said the university had admitted 500 Chinese students in 2018, but numbers had collapsed in the pandemic and had not bounced back like it had in other markets.

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“No one really talks about servers as much as they do accelerators, but the server business has bounced back pretty nicely,” Matt Stucky, chief portfolio manager for equities at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management, told MarketWatch.

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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reported a 17% increase in quarterly earnings after its insurance business bounced back from a year ago.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers bounced back to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 and set up a deciding seventh game in the World Series after tying the series at 3-3.

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Related Words

• overcome 
• rebound 
• recover 
• recuperate