snap back

1. Rebound from a setback, recover quickly, as in I think we'll snap back quickly from this business downturn. This idiom transfers the sudden release of tension on, for example, a branch to other kinds of recovery. [First half of 1900s]

Example Sentences

When the plan collapsed in late 1994, the group snapped back sharply.

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His first minister's questions exchanges with Nicola Sturgeon were calculated to provoke her to snap back at him.

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He snaps back: “Never tell me I’m going wake up one day and have nothing. Never put that into the universe.”

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Altman quickly snapped back into Silicon Valley’s eternal brand of sunshine, saying he feels OpenAI has a “good shot” at threading the needle between troubling dependence on machine learning and a useful tool.

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Analyst Dan Ives, known as a fan of the company, also urged the board to impose guardrails, prompting Musk to snap back on social media: "Shut up, Dan".

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Related Words

• bounce back 
• gain 
• grow 
• heal 
• increase 
• overcome 
• pick up 
• rebound 
• recuperate 
• restore 
• revive