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jumping-off point
(redirected from jumping-off place)

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jumping-off point and jumping-off place
a point or place from which to begin something. The local library is a good jumping-off point for your research. The office job in that company would be a good jumping-off place for a career in advertising.
See also: point


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Thus, in Washington, the conceit that life amid the political establishment resembles high school, which would seem a serviceable jumping-off place for some more trenchant point, is the point, made at such excruciating length that the reader is finally tempted to disagree with it, if only to achieve traction.
Daffern was stationed most of the time in Fort Worth, Texas, but did one temporary stint in Goose Bay, Labrador, a jumping-off place for troops on their way to England.
Craig uses Aesop's fable as a jumping-off place for her lively, imaginative story, told in a modern style.
 
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