crawl off the canvas
Since equities crawled off the canvas in 2009, en environment of low global interest rates and lacklustre economic growth has led investor to own fast-growing companies.

The translation shows that "crawl off the canvas" means the get better, but I still want to know the source of the sentence. Why would people use it this way? Thank you.

Question

crawl off the canvas
Since equities crawled off the canvas in 2009, en environment of low global interest rates and lacklustre economic growth has led investor to own fast-growing companies.

The translation shows that "crawl off the canvas" means the get better, but I still want to know the source of the sentence. Why would people use it this way? Thank you.

Answer

"crawl off the canvas" refers to a painting coming to life. For example, if the Mona Lisa stood up and walked away. It is used as a metaphor, meaning something that was previously static and immobile is now animated and moving.

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