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bounce back and forth

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bounce something back and forth 
1. Lit. to bat, toss, or throw something alternately between two people. (Usually a ball.) The two guys bounced the ball back and forth. John and Timmy bounced it back and forth.
2. Fig. to discuss an idea back and forth among a group of people. Let's bounce these ideas back and forth awhile and see what we come up with. The idea was bounced back and forth for about an hour.
See also: and, back, bounce, forth


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We bounce back and forth a little bit from present to future, and my future character is very different from my present character.
Don''t bounce back and forth between different types of real estate investing (such as fixer uppers, rentals, lease options, low down payment homes, etc.
Now, Haroche and his colleagues have shown how to count photons nondestructively while they bounce back and forth between two mirrors.
 
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