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• Judge at the hip.
If someone is said to be the judge, jury, and executioner, it means they are in charge of every decisión

made, and they have the power to be rid of whomever they choose.
• Juggle frogs.
If you are juggly frogs, you are trying to do something very difficult.

• Jump down someone’s throat.
If you jump down someone’s throat, you criticise or chastice them severely.
• Jump on the bandwagon.

If peolple jump on the bandwagon, they get involved in something that has recently become very
popular.

• Jump ship.
If you leave a company or institution from another because it is doing badly, you are jumping ship.
• Jump the broom.

To jump the broom is to marry. (Jump over the broom, jump over the bromstick, jump the broomstick
are also used.)

• Jump the gun.
If you jump the gun, you start doing something before the appropriate time.
• Jump the track.

Jumping the track is suddenly changing from one plan, activity, idea, etc, to another.

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