bounce back
verb
- recover
Wiktionary
noun
- Alternative form of bounceback.
“After an initial bounce back, the post-Covid Chinese economy has turned sluggish. Its property market - once a key driver of growth - is now mired in a credit crisis, exacerbating a domestic "debt bomb" that has ballooned from years of borrowing by local government and state-owned enterprises.”
verb
- 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.”
- Of an email message, to be returned to the sender because it is undeliverable.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bounce, back.