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To recover from a negative without seemingly any damage.
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We thought he'd die from the crash, but he bounced back to normal after 10 days in hospital.
Submitted on August 29, 2012
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- turn out
- wolf down
- a cut above
- bite one's tongue
- by hook or by crook
- cut and dried
- cut of one's jib
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- give somebody an earful
- hammer home
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- in black and white
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- lion
- muckety muck
- nugget of truth
- off the bat
- on edge
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- on the pill
- on top of the world
- one fell swoop
- out of house and home
- out of order
- out of the blue
- play one's cards right
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