jump at the opportunity
Eagerly accept a chance or offer
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jump before one is pushed
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
jump down someone's throat
To strongly and abruptly criticize or scold someone
jump for joy
Feel extreme happiness or excitement
jump in one's skin
To feel a sudden, intense shock or fear
jump on
to quickly take advantage of an opportunity
jump out
To suddenly appear or become noticed
jump salty
to react overly defensively or sensitively
jump someone's bones
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
jump street
to take a drastic or sudden action
jump the queue
To take someone's place ahead of them in a line or sequence
jump the shark
to pass the peak of success and begin to decline
jump to
to suddenly change to a different subject
jump-up-behind
To endorse an accommodation-bill.
jumped-up
Conceited, arrogant, setting full value on oneself.
jumpers
Persons who rob houses by getting in at the windows. Also a set of Methodists established in South Wales.
jumping the besom
Omitting the marriage service after the publication of banns, and living together as man and wife.
jumping-off place
The edge of the earth, from which one leaped into nothingness. Applied by American pioneers to any remote, desolate spot.
june
To rush.
June marriages lucky
"Good to the man and happy to the maid." This is an old Roman superstition. The festival of Juno moneta was held on the calends of June, and Juno was the great guardian of women from birth to death.
jungle telegraph
an informal network of people sharing information
juniper
Gin.
juniper
Gin. Derivation obvious.
juniper juice
gin
juniper lecture
A round scolding bout.
junk
Salt beef.—See OLD HORSE.
junkyard dog
A fiercely competitive or aggressive person
Junonian Bird
The peacock, dedicated to the goddess-queen.
Jupiter and Dione
Vulcan was her husband, but she had amours with Mars and many other gods and demi-gods; by Mercury she was the mother of Cupid, and by the hero Anchises
Jupiter Scapin
A nickname of Napoleon Bonaparte, given him by the Abbe de Pradt Scapin is a valet famous for his knavish tricks, in Moliere's comedy of Les Fourberies de Scapin.
jupiter's beard
House leek. Supposed to be a charm against evil spirits and lightning. Hence grown at one time very generally on the thatch of houses.
Jurassic Rocks
The group of lime- stone rocks embracing the strata between the top of the Rhaetic Beds and the base of the Purbeckian Rocks, thus including the Lias and Oolites. So named from the Swiss Jura, where they are typically developed.
jury is out
A decision or verdict has not been reached yet
jury leg
A wooden leg: allusion to a jury mast, which is a temporary substitute for a mast carried away by a storm, or any other accident. SEA PHRASE.
jury mast
A JOURNIERE mast; i.e. a mast for the day or occasion.
jury mast
A temporary mast, a spar used for the nonce when the mast has been carried away. The origin of the term is unknown; it has been in use for certainly over three hundred years.
jus mariti
The right of the husband to the wife's property. Just, The.
just a minute
wait for a short time
just a second
wait for a very short time
just about
almost or very nearly
just another pretty face
Someone attractive but lacking in substance or intelligence
just deserts
the punishment or reward one deserves
just folks
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
just like that
happening or done suddenly and without warning
just nine a-piece
Albumazar, iii. 5. Poole in his English Parnassus (about 1650) called the four elements Nature's first mourni- val.
just the same
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
just-ass
A punning appellation for a justice.
justice pleaseth few in their own house
People often dislike justice when it affects them personally
juwaub
Literally, in Hindostanee, an answer; but in Anglo-Indian slang signifying a refusal. If an officer asks for leave and is refused, he is said to be JUWAUBED; if a gentleman unsuccessfully proposes for the hand of a lady, he is said to have got the JUWAUB.—Anglo-Indian.