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Idiom

jump street

Meaning

The starting point; the very beginning.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“We knew the project was difficult from jump street.”

“The team had a clear vision for the new product right from jump street, which helped them finish ahead of schedule.”

“Although the partnership seemed promising, the two companies held fundamentally different values from jump street, making their eventual separation inevitable.”

Examples

simple

“We knew the project was difficult from jump street.”

contextual

“The team had a clear vision for the new product right from jump street, which helped them finish ahead of schedule.”

complex

“Although the partnership seemed promising, the two companies held fundamentally different values from jump street, making their eventual separation inevitable.”

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