bounce off | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive,informal,idiomatic)Totest(ideas) on someone.I have a plan tobounce offyou.Let mebouncean ideaoffyou.; (transitive)To use as aspringboardfor further discussion.1981August 29, Nancy Wechsler, “Pornography and the Lawyers Guild”, inGay Community News, volume 9, number 7, page 4:My comments about the resolutions come after Pat and Gayle have explained their objections and talked about what they think their effects will be. My remark isbouncing offof what they said, feeding it back to them in an attempt to continue the flow off the interview.; (intransitive)Tomoveaway with a bouncing movement.Shebounced offout of the room.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seebounce,‎off.

Examples:

EN: They thought they hit the target, boss, but bullets just bounce off of you.
ES: Creyeron que dieron en el blanco, pero las balas le rebotan.
EN: I'd make a windshield at an angle, and they'd bounce off.
ES: Yo hubiera puesto el parabrisas angulado, así rebotarían.
EN: Take a side bounce off the fender.
ES: Coge un lado del guardabarros para rebotar.
EN: As a part of planned movements, aimed to bounce off the enemy, the city of Kherson was emptied...
ES: Para desprendernos del enemigo vamos a retroceder un poco.
EN: The bullets'll bounce off a face like yours!
ES: En una cara como la tuya rebotan los proyectiles.
EN: The beam will bounce off the surface of the moon... and come racing back through the heavens to this laboratory.
ES: El rayo rebotará en la superficie de la luna... y regresar corriendo a través de los cielos a este laboratorio.
EN: Those bullets bounce off like BB shot on a stone wall.
ES: Las balas rebotan como si fueran disparadas en un muro de piedra.
EN: The radar waves wouldn't bounce off, they'd slide around.
ES: Las ondas del radar no pueden rebotar y se deslizan a su alrededor.
EN: It seems you can't kill him. The bullets bounce off.
ES: No parece posible matarle.
EN: Pebbles'll bounce off these windows just as well, now won't they?
ES: Podemos hacer de todo contra la ventana, ¿o no?
EN: Use the pistol. Useless, the bullets would just bounce off.
ES: - Es inútil, las balas rebotarían en él.
EN: If I could bounce off it, I could get some good views.
ES: Si consigo rebotar la señal, tendremos una buena vista.
EN: You don't think the meteorites are going to bounce off them, do you?
ES: ¿No cree que los meteoritos se va a rebotar en ellos, ¿verdad?
EN: They bounce off the armour.
ES: Rebotan en el blindaje.
EN: Did Intelligence tell us how to get a decent bounce off this muck?
ES: ¿Explicaron los de inteligencia como rebotar la bomba en el fango?

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