"bounce off the walls" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-bounce off the walls.ogg 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, rubber room Translations (to be overly active): իրեն ուտել (iren utel) (Armenian), պատերն ելնել (patern elnel) (Armenian), 興高采烈 (xīnggāocǎiliè) (Chinese Mandarin), hyppiä seinillä (Finnish), tourner comme un lion en cage (French), aufgekratzt sein (German), nie móc usiedzieć na miejscu [imperfective] (Polish), ferver (Portuguese), лезть на стенку (leztʹ na stenku) (english: lit: climb onto the wall) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-bounce_off_the_walls-en-verb-QRqrVJ3~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English predicates, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of English predicates: 47 53 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 70 30 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 78 22 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 64 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 62 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 58 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of 'to be overly active': 99 1
  2. (by extension, figuratively) To be brimful of agitation from excitement, indignation, or anxiety. Tags: broadly, figuratively
    Sense id: en-bounce_off_the_walls-en-verb-p23M5Loy Categories (other): English predicates Disambiguation of English predicates: 47 53

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "to be overly active",
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