off the wall• The noise of conversation from the hall below bouncedoff the walls around them.• Before I could grasp what was happening, I had bounced off the wall and was crumpling on to the floor in pain.• I jumped down off the wall and joined my sister who was standing behind them listening.• A Whitney Houston tapeechoedoff the walls.• There's a woman just up the road so I hopoff the wall and run after her.• The husband tried to seize a portrait of her, an oilpainting, rip it right off the wall.