Meaning of jump on | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To board a vehicle.
2. To attack verbally, to criticise excessively.
   idiomatic
3. To take immediate action regarding; to avail oneself of without delay.
   idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“Jump on a nº9 bus, and it will take you more or less to the door.”

“I hate the way she's always jumping on me for the slightest little mistake.”

“Community banks can jump on the opportunity to make changes.”

“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.”

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