jump at the chance, to

To seize an opportunity. Jumping at various kinds of opportunity is recorded from the seventeenth century on, often likened to how a cock would jump at a gooseberry. Sir Walter Scott particularly liked this analogy, using it for jumping at an offer and jumping at “the ready penny.”

词组	jump at the chance, to
释义	jump at the chance, to jump at the chance, to To seize an opportunity. Jumping at various kinds of opportunity is recorded from the seventeenth century on, often likened to how a cock would jump at a gooseberry. Sir Walter Scott particularly liked this analogy, using it for jumping at an offer and jumping at “the ready penny.” See also: jump The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: a bite at the cherry a bite at/of the cherry window of opportunity window of opportunity, a a window of opportunity once-in-a-lifetime opportunity opportunity knocks a bite of the cherry (one's) start tap for
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