bounce off
Verb
Meaning
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bounce, off.
(transitive, idiomatic) To test (ideas) on someone.
I have a plan to bounce off you.
Let me bounce an idea off you.
To move away with a bouncing movement.
She bounced off out of the room.
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Examples
I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.
Maybe we could think of science as being like a nuclear chain reaction in which people and ideas bounce off each other, and if critical mass is reached, a new field is formed.
It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.
Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.