bounce off

phrasal verb

bounced off; bouncing off; bounces off

informal

: to talk about (something, such as an idea) with (someone) in an informal way in order to get an opinion

I wanted to bounce some ideas off you before the meeting.

Examples of bounce off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

With just before two minutes left in the half, a pass by Detroit’s Jared Goff bounced off a helmet before being intercepted by Arizona’s Mack Wilson Sr. and returned for an apparent Cardinals touchdown that would have tied the score at 13. —Andrew Greif, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2024

Photons, or particles of light, knock against the solar sail and bounce off, like they’re reflected from a mirror. —Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024

The daily price chart for Warner Brothers Discovery looks like this: The stock is bouncing off of the August lows and has reached the level of the down trending 200-day moving average. —John Navin, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024

Andrea Bocelli possesses not only an extraordinary operatic voice, but another unique gift – the capacity to sense sound bouncing off of surfaces. —Matthew Carey, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2024