You’re watching Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for January 24.

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Today’s word is jump, spelled j-u-m-p.

jump /dʒʌmp/ verb

jump the light idiom

of a vehicle

: to start moving before the traffic light turns green

The car ahead of me jumped the light.

jump ship idiom

to leave an organization that you are working for, especially in order to join another

The best employees jumped ship at the first opportunity.

He jumped ship when he found out the non-profit's founder was keeping much of the funding for himself.

jump through hoops idiom

informal

: to do a complicated or annoying series of things in order to get or achieve something

We had to jump through a lot of hoops to get a loan from the bank.

We had to jump through hoops to get our visas in time.