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jumping-off point

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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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A house's roof served as a jumping-off point (literally).
The lessons for this day reflect those themes and serve as the jumping-off point for the third and final part of the Advent/Christmas/Epiphany cycle.
``Jason's one of the superstars of tomorrow, there's no question about it -- he's at that jumping-off point right now,'' said Milt Larsen, The Magic Castle's founder and a lifelong practitioner of the art.
 
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