Boris bounce
English
Etymology
Named after Boris Johnson (born 1964), English politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022.
Noun
Boris bounce (plural Boris bounces)
- (UK politics, informal) A surprising resurgence of popularity on the part of Boris Johnson.
- 2017, Matt Flinders, “Pressure, personality and politics: Foolish, but no fool: Boris Johnson and the art of politics”, in What Kind of Democracy Is This?: Politics in a Changing World, Bristol: Policy Press, →ISBN, page 115:
- But not even the most proficient professor of the art of politics could have predicted ‘the Boris bounce’ as May astounded observers by appointing him Foreign Secretary.
- 2020 April 9, Gaby Hinsliff, “We used to moan about normal life, now our fear is we'll never get it back”, in The Guardian:
- Far from enjoying some mythical “Boris bounce”, we may have been teetering on the verge of a recession, as business confidence dried up in the face of a potentially hard Brexit.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Boris bounce.
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