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)

  1. (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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