jump into the fray

jump into the fray

1. To enter into some competitive endeavor. Now that you've jumped into the fray and decided to run for mayor, I hope you're prepared for the personal attacks that are likely to follow. The company is preparing to jump into the fray with a new operating system for smartphones and tablets.
2. To become a part of an ongoing fight or argument. Once my relatives start arguing, I usually leave the room rather than jump into the fray. Look, we can resolve this issue ourselves. We don't need the boss jumping into the fray.
See also: fray, jump
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • join the fray
  • all in
  • all-in
  • I hope all goes well
  • keep on with
  • keep on with (something)
  • all in, be
  • be all in
  • get (one's) bait back
  • get your bait back
References in periodicals archive
Anyone who boots up "Hearthstone" with the expansion gets six free card packs, so they can build a deck and jump into the fray using the new cards.
Since then, many directors have attempted this fascinating model of storytelling, and the latest to jump into the fray is India's Rakesh Rawat.
Referees jump into the fray once the first sign of deliberate physical contact is made, averting an escalation.
The ANP ticket was awarded to Mr Islam after it was withdrawn from Shahnawaz Khan of Topi city, forcing him to jump into the fray as an independent, which will potentially harm Mr Islam's position.
In a long line of insulting propaganda after the NYS scandal surrounding Anne Waiguru, who is now a governor, regardless of her history, the magazine decided to jump into the fray by putting her on its cover.
This state of affairs has allowed naysayers, soothsayers and ambitious politicians from the region to jump into the fray and generate a cauldron of unwanted suggestions.
With so much attention now being paid to fake news and the prospect of living in a "posttruth" world, librarians and other information professionals want to jump into the fray. Librarians are creating guides explaining how to spot fake news.
Speaking to M AIL T ODAY on Tuesday, Batra said he chose to jump into the fray for the love of the sport.
Politico also notes that Helen Clarke, who runs the UN Development Program, and the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees AntA[sup.3]nio Guterres "were widely seen as outperforming the seven Eastern European candidates" at the public hearings held last month.With new candidates from other regions such as Argentina expected to "jump into the fray" soon, Eastern Europe could also see new names enter the race, with Slovakian Foreign Minister Miroslav LajAA k also expected to run.
But is David Cameron attaching too much importance to Boris Johnson's decision to jump into the fray, siding with Brexit?
CASUALTY BBC1, 9.05pm Nikki is not quite ready to let her family go, prompting Dixie to selflessly jump into the fray to save them from her wrath.
It appears that where advertising spend is bigger, it creates more laxity at the approval end and more people with more strange ideas at the spending level jump into the fray to flex out their ideas in the name of creating TV campaigns.
Maaytah did not say whether the militants were Jordanians or foreign fighters trying to jump into the fray in the neighboring country.
While many comics publishers in 1941 were focusing on superheroics that at least subtly encouraged America to jump into the fray of World War II, Russian-born publisher Albert Kanter debuted Classic Comics (renamed Classics Illustrated in 1947).
Palin was happy to jump into the fray Wednesday night in a lengthy television interview almost entirely dedicated to the controversy surrounding the invite to the rapper poet.