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on_the_bounce
on the bounce
English
Adjective
on the bounce (not comparable)
- (Britain, idiomatic, informal, chiefly sports) consecutively, in succession
- 2016 October 8, "Popey", “Sunday League Footie”, in alt.sports.soccer.everton, Usenet:
- A tough openeing to our Kettering Area Division 4 season, with going out of the cup in the first round, and three straight losses on the bounce.
- 2003, Matthew Symonds and Larry Ellison, Softwar, ISBN 074322504X, page 462:
- After those eleven wins on the bounce, it’s desperately disappointing, but Ellison doesn’t seem too down when I find him back on Katana.
- 2007, Neil Boulton, Vamos! the Avon Plate Story, ISBN 1425141706, page 33:
- Two wins on the bounce. It obviously wasn't luck last week.
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