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Jump off

verb

Set off quickly, usually with success.

Jump down from an elevated point. Synonyms: jump, leap. "Every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge" , "The widow leapt into the funeral pyre"

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"Jump off" Quotes from Famous Books

... "We can hardly jump off our mules and attack him without any specific reason. We might get the worst of it, and even if we didn't how should we get back again, and how should we account for having killed our mule-driver? No. Whatever we are in for, ...

— Jack Archer • G. A. Henty

... anyone left who still believes the ancient and bizarre legend that mountain sheep rams jump off cliffs and alight upon their horns? I think not. People now know enough about anatomy, and the mental traits of wild sheep, to know that nothing of that kind ever occurred save by a dreadful accident, followed by the death of the sheep. No spinal column was ever made by ...

— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday

... she's given in at last," said the good-natured society reporter. "She's been running down hill for the past month, and if she'd kept on much longer she'd have run to the place where you jump off." ...

— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

... walking step by step forward, and all the rest followed her like sheep. Cattle will do that. I've seen a stockrider, when all the horses were dead beat, trying to get fat cattle to take a river in flood, jump off and turn his horse loose into the stream. If he went straight, and swam across, all the cattle would follow ...

— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood

... an' then I'll scoot jest as soon as you get hold of the halter," said Bob, happy at this prospect of being relieved. "Then, when you get a chance, you jump off, an' we'll let somebody else take ...

— Mr. Stubbs's Brother - A Sequel to 'Toby Tyler' • James Otis

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