Sens: bungee jumping

bun·gee jump·ing || 'bʌndʒiːsaut à l'élastique (saut effectué à partir d'un lieu élevé, dont le principe est que la personne qui se jette dans le vide est retenue par un élastique au niveau de ses pieds) .

jumping Idiome

jumping Jehosephat

holy cow, jimminy crickets, wow """Your VISA balance is $63,756."" ""Jumping Jehosephat! Is it?"""

jumping-off place

the starting place of a long trip We gathered early in the morning at the jumping-off place for our trip to the mountains.

jumping-off point

Idiom(s): jumping-off point AND jumping-off place

Theme: DEPART

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 job in advertising.

Jumping Judas!

An expression of surprise or shock.

Queue jumping

Someone who goes to the front of a queue instead of waiting is jumping the queue.

jumping-off place|jump|jumping|place

n. phr. 1. A place so far away that it seems to be the end of the world. Columbus' sailors were afraid they would arrive at the jumping-off place if they sailed farther west. So you visited Little America? That sounds like the jumping-off place! 2. The starting place of a long, hard trip or of something difficult or dangerous. The jumping-off place for the explorer's trip through the jungle was a little village.