"bounce off the walls" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-bounce off the walls.ogg [Australia] Forms: bounces off the walls [present, singular, third-person], bouncing off the walls [participle, present], bounced off the walls [participle, past], bounced off the walls [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=bounce off the walls}} bounce off the walls (third-person singular simple present bounces off the walls, present participle bouncing off the walls, simple past and past participle bounced off the walls)
  1. (idiomatic) To be overly active relative to the enclosed space in which one is. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: off the wall Translations (to be overly active): իրեն ուտել (iren utel) (Armenian), պատերն ելնել (patern elnel) (Armenian), 興高采烈 (Chinese Mandarin), 兴高采烈 (xīnggāocǎiliè) (Chinese Mandarin), hyppiä seinillä (Finnish), aufgekratzt sein (German), ferver (Portuguese), лезть на стенку (leztʹ na stenku) (english: lit: climb onto the wall) (Russian)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "to be overly active",
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