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jump at |
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jump at something to quickly and eagerly accept an opportunity. She jumped at every invitation she got to speak about her discovery. Usage notes: often used in the form jump at the chance: She jumped at the chance to go to Paris. See also: jump |
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The Leap-frog stood still for a long time lost in thought; it was believed at last he would not jump at all. Critics, he says, jump at certain groundless conclusions; they pass adverse judgment and then proceed to reason on it; and, assuming that the poet has said whatever they happen to think, find fault if a thing is inconsistent with their own fancy. I know there's not a magazine in Christendom that wouldn't jump at it. |
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