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• Jack Frost.
If everything has frozen in winter, then Jack frost has visited.
• Jack the Lad.
A confident and not very serious young man who behaves as he wants to without thinking about
other people is a Jack the Lad.
• Jack-of-all-trades.
A Jack-of-all-trades is someone that can do many different jobs.
• Jam on your face.
If you say someone has jam on their face, they appear to be caught, embarressed or found guilty.
• Jam tomorrow.
This idiom is used when people promise good things for the future that will never come.
• Jane Doe.
Jane Doe is a name given to an unidentified female who may be party to legal proccedings, or to an
unidentified person in hospital, or dead. John Doe is the male equivalent.
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