Idiom
bounce off the walls
Meaning
To be overly active relative to the enclosed space in which one is.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The excited children are bouncing off the walls today.”
“After eating all that candy at the party, the kids were bouncing off the walls for hours.”
“The puppy, having been confined to a small crate all morning, began bouncing off the walls the moment he was finally released into the garden.”
Examples
simple
“The excited children are bouncing off the walls today.”
contextual
“After eating all that candy at the party, the kids were bouncing off the walls for hours.”
complex
“The puppy, having been confined to a small crate all morning, began bouncing off the walls the moment he was finally released into the garden.”
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