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jump the gun 的定义
- Start doing something too soon, act too hastily. For example, The local weather bureau jumped the gun on predicting a storm; it didn't happen for another two days. This expression alludes to starting a race before the starter's gun has gone off, and supplants the earlier beat the pistol, which dates from about 1900. [Mid-1900s]
jump the gun 近义词
get a head start
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- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- “You can imagine the sound of that gun on a Bronx street,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says.
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- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- The sound of my step shall make your heart jump; a look from me shall make you dumb for an hour.
- This was no strange sight to the boy by that time, but it was awkward in the circumstances, for he had neither gun nor spear.
- He turned at the sound of my voice with vastly more concern than he'd betrayed under the muzzle of Piegan's gun.
- We haven't even seen a review of the piece; the footlights go up with a jump, and now the curtain rises.