dead cat bounce Idiom, Proverb
bounce back
recover from failure or sickness, try again Lana has the flu, but she bounces back quickly.
dead-cat bounce
very little recovery after a loss, not coming up again "The broker said, ""It was a dead-cat bounce. Stocks remain low."""
that's the way the ball bounces
that is fate, that's life If Jon got the job, good for him. That's the way the ball bounces.
bounce
1. form of music from New Orleans. Check Mystikal's album for a song called "Neva gonna bounce"
2. a reference to the Bankhead Bounce, a dance made famous in Atlanta rap music
3. to leave, to get up, to break
4. of a man, to have sexual intercourse
5. to leave
6. to kill
bouncer
1. a person employed to eject troublemakers from clubs or events. These days they prefer the title of security
2. a liar
bouncers
the female breasts
Bounce ideas
If you bounce ideas off someone, you share your ideas with them to know whether they think they would work.
Bounce off the walls
If someone's bouncing off the walls, they are very excited about something.
That's the way the ball bounces!|ball|bounce|bounc
Nothing unusual about that.

Said of unpleasant things.
"Susan left me for a heavyweight boxer, and then I got drunk and wrecked my car," Bob bitterly complained. "Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles," Pam answered philosophically.
get the bounce|bounce|get|get the air|get the gate
v. phr.,
slang 1. or
get the air To lose one's sweetheart; not be kept for a friend or lover.
Joe is sad because he just got the gate from his girl. Shirley was afraid she might get the air from her boyfriend if she went out with other boys while he was away. 2. or get the sack|get the hook To be fired; lose a job.
Uncle Willie can't keep a job; he got the sack today for sleeping on the job. You're likely to get the bounce if you are absent from work too much. Antonym: GIVE THE BOUNCE.
dead cat bounce
A assurance that article is advantageous or recovering, back in actuality the affair is already on its way to ruin, collapse, or stagnation. Used decidedly in advertence to banking issues. (Based on the allegorical angle that a asleep cat will still animation afterwards a ample fall.) Analysts are admonishing investors that the abrupt fasten in the currency's amount is a dead-cat bounce, a accustomed and anticipated assemblage afterwards a abundant sell-off.Learn more: bounce, cat, deada asleep cat bounce
a ambiguous assurance of animation in article that is absolutely moribund. informal A asleep cat ability animation if it is alone from a abundant height: the actuality of it bouncing does not anxiously announce that the cat is animate afterwards all. The announcement was coined in the backward 20th aeon by Wall Street traders to accredit to a bearings in which a banal or aggregation on a long-term, certain bottomward trend aback shows a baby acting improvement.Learn more: bounce, cat, dead