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glance off

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glance off (someone or something)
to bounce off someone or something. The bullet glanced off the huge boulder. The baseball glanced off of Tom and left a bruise on his side where it had touched.
See also: glance


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I did kind of glance off some of those rumors just to point out this happened and this didn't, but I didn't dwell on those.
But Martin was safe only because Cubs right fielder Kosuke Fukudome had the ball glance off his glove while trying to make a diving catch.
He presents severely and hieratically subdued "stagings" in which the canvases are arranged according to a classical, almost Olympian rhythm and within which all perceptual ambiguities, which tend to throw the viewer's glance off balance, can be resolved.
 
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