jump on
Verb
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Verb
jump on
- To board a vehicle.
- Jump on a nº9 bus, and it will take you more or less to the door.
- (idiomatic) To attack verbally, to criticise excessively.
- I hate the way she's always jumping on me for the slightest little mistake.
- (idiomatic) To take immediate action regarding; to avail oneself of without delay.
- 2003 Oct. 28, "Banking Giant ↗," New York Times (retrieved 15 June 2011):
- Community banks can jump on the opportunity to make changes.
- 2011 Jan. 28, "[http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2045050,00.html How Your Name May Cost You at the Mall]," Time:
- So later in life, when the Z's — and even onetime Z's who became A's through marriage — see an item they really like for sale or are offered a deal, they jump on it.
- 2003 Oct. 28, "Banking Giant ↗," New York Times (retrieved 15 June 2011):
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