Citations:bounce

English citations of bounce

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• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

  The next moment, relieved in great part from the downward strain at the bows, the boats gave a sudden bounce upwards, as a small icefield will, when a dense herd of white bears are scared from it into the sea.

• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

  "How it was exactly," continued the one-armed commander, "I do not know; but in biting the line, it got foul of his teeth, caught there somehow; but we didn't know it then; so that when we afterwards pulled on the line, bounce we came plump on to his hump! instead of the other whale's; that went off to windward, all fluking.

politics:

• 2017, Matt Flinders, “Pressure, personality and politics: Foolish, but no fool: Boris Johnson and the art of politics”, in What Kind of Democracy Is This?: Politics in a Changing World, Bristol: Policy Press, →ISBN, page 115:

  But not even the most proficient professor of the art of politics could have predicted ‘the Boris bounce’ as May astounded observers by appointing him Foreign Secretary.

• 2019 July 27, David Connett, “‘Boris bounce’ lifts Tories at expense of Brexit party, poll shows”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

  The Conservatives are experiencing a “Boris bounce” in the polls since his appointment as prime minister. ¶ In Boris Johnson’s first week in Downing Street, the Tories led with 30% of the vote.

• 2020 April 9, Gaby Hinsliff, “We used to moan about normal life, now our fear is we'll never get it back”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

  Far from enjoying some mythical “Boris bounce”, we may have been teetering on the verge of a recession, as business confidence dried up in the face of a potentially hard Brexit.

• “How to combat Brown bounce”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[3], 2007 July 26 (last accessed)

  History dictates that the Brown bounce will wear off - no prime minister has a limitless supply of new initiatives.

• “Labour's tale of the unexpected”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[4], 2008 November 7 (last accessed)

  David Cameron may now worry that the "Brown Bounce" is more than a passing phenomenon. Glenrothes consolidates the improved poll ratings Labour have been enjoying of late.