Hurdle Phrases

Phrases

• Break the sound barrier
• Does it make sense to jump out of a warm bed into a cold cereal? (Quaker Oats advertising slogan)
• Don't fence me in
• For the high jump
• Get the jump on
• Go and jump in a lake
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Hop, skip and jump
• Jack jump over the candlestick (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jump at the chance
• Jump bail
• Jump down my throat
• Jump for joy
• Jump in with both feet
• Jump off
• Jump out of your skin
• Jump rope
• Jump ship
• Jump someone's bones
• Jump start
• Jump the broomstick
• Jump the couch
• Jump the gun
• Jump the line
• Jump the queue
• Jump the shark
• Jump the track
• Jump through hoops
• Jump to it
• Jump to the wrong conclusion
• Language barrier
• Leap in the dark
• Leap of faith
• Look before you leap
• On the jump
• One jump ahead of
• One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Neil Armstrong quotation)
• Pain barrier
• Picket fence
• Sit on the fence
• Sitting on the fence
• Take a running jump
• That cat won't jump
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The Big Guy (Nickname of Arthur Carlson (Gordon Jump))
• The Great Barrier Reef (tourist attraction in Australia)
• The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence