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Jump off

verb

Set off quickly, usually with success.

Jump down from an elevated point. Synonyms: jump, leap. "Every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge" , "The widow leapt into the funeral pyre"

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"Jump off" Quotes from Famous Books

... and blinded with the mud—I wouldn't like to tell you for a moment that it was pleasant, but I can truthfully say I never was more relieved in my life. I struck out for the bank, and got out of the water, and then sat down on the grass and wondered why on earth I hadn't made up my mind to jump off that ...

— A Little Bush Maid • Mary Grant Bruce

... train not long ago a man lost his hat as we pulled out of Petersburg, and it fell by the side of the track. The train was just moving slowly away from the station, so he had a chance to jump off and run back after it. He got the hat, but not till we had placed seven or eight miles between us and him. We could not help feeling sorry for him, because very likely his hat had an embroidered hat band in it, presented by one dearer to him than ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) • Various

... I'm going to jump off the roof on to the straw stack," she shouted, and before Bob could stop her she had jumped and ...

— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson

... before the despoiled Hungarian regained his feet. The hour yet wanted nearly ten minutes of being one o'clock, so the chauffeur had not budged from his post in the park. Devar told him to start the engine, and be ready to jump off without delay. Then they waited, and watched the corner of the square intersected by East Broadway, but neither Steingall nor Clancy appeared, so they judged it best to obey orders, and make for the Police Headquarters. ...

— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy

... with a new dietary and some good advice. The latter in tabloid form being:—"Drop business for a time, go into it again slowly, and gradually creep into your job." All of which is wise, and commends itself greatly to my erstwhile mind, but is much like saying, "Jump off the Brooklyn bridge, "slowly." ... I am not resigned, of course. Because I cannot see the end. Definiteness is so imperative to some natures. However, I think that I have done all that an exacting Deity would demand, and cannot be accused of ...

— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane

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