1892. Hume Nisbet, Bushranger’s Sweetheart, 250. I shall only give
you a little of our conversation the Sunday night before we parted,
and leave you to jump at what had been said before.
To jump (or be jump) with, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To agree; to
coincide; to tally.
1567. Harman, Caveat [E. E. I. S.], 44. They mete iompe at night.
1584. Lyly, Alexander and Campaspe. And thou to be jump with
Alexander.
1598. Shakspeare, I Henry IV, i. 2. In short, it jumps with my
humour.
1606. Return from Parnassus [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ix. 113].
As in the first, so in the last, my censure may jump with thine.
1633. Match at Midnight, iii. 1. How all things jump in a just
equivalency.
1660. Andromana, iii. 6. This story jump’d Just with my dream
to-night.
1838. Neal, Charcoal Sketches, [quoted by De Vere]. On the whole it
jumped with his desires, and the matter was clinched.
1841. Peake, Court and City, iv. Hum. What a happiness it is, when
people’s inclinations jump!
To jump one’s horse over a bar, verb. phr. (colonial). See quot.
1886. Daily Telegraph, 20 Mar. Then the unhappy man would, in bush
parlance, jump his horse over the bar, that is to say, he would,
for a paltry sum, sell his horse, saddle, bridle, and all, to the
lambing-down landlord.
To go a jump, verb. phr. (American thieves’).—To enter a house by the
window.—Matsell (1859).
To jump a bill, verb. phr. (common).—To dishonour an acceptance.
1892. Pall Mall Gazette, 17 Oct., p. 2, col. 3. Painting the town
red ... jumping bills ... evading writters etc.
To see how the cat will jump, verb. phr. (common).—To watch the course
of events; to sit on the fence (q.v.).
1825. Universal Songster, i. (‘The Dog’s-Meat Man’). He soon saw
which way the cat did jump, And his company he offered plump.
1827. Scott, in Croker Pap. (1884), 1. xi. 319. Had I time, I
believe I would come to London merely to see how the cat jumped.
1853. Bulwer Lytton, My Novel, iv. p. 228. ‘But I rely equally on
your friendly promise.’ ‘Promise! No—I don’t promise. I must first
see how the cat jumps.’
1859. Lever, Davenport Dunn, iii. 229. You’ll see with half an eye
how the cat jumps.
1874. Sat. Rev., p. 139. This dismays the humble Liberal of the
faint Southern type, who thinks that there are subjects as to which
the heads of his party need not wait to see how the cat jumps.
1887. ‘Pol. Slang,’ in Cornhill Mag., June, p. 626. Those who sit
on the fence—men with impartial minds, who wait to see, as another
pretty phrase has it, how the cat will jump.
To jump upon, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To maltreat, physically or
otherwise; to criticise severely; to take it out of (q.v.); to sit upon
(q.v.).
1872. M. E. Braddon, Dead Sea Fruit, v. When a wretched scribbler
was, in vulgar phraseology, to be jumped upon, honest Daniel put on
his hobnailed boots, and went at the savage operation with a will.
To jump bail, verb. phr. (common).—To abscond.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
To jump the Broomstick.—See Broomstick.
To jump up (tailors’).—To get the best of one, or the reverse.—Slang,
Jargon & Cant.
To jump the game, verb. phr. (American police).—To raid a gambling den.
To jump up behind, verb. phr. (general).—See quot.
1865. Daily Telegraph, 9 Mar. ‘Has he no friend,’ he asks him, ‘who
will jump up behind, that is endorse the acceptance.’
To jump out of one’s skin.—See Skin.
On the keen jump, adv. phr. (U. S. colloquial).—On the ‘go’; violently
at work.
b. 1884. T. Winthrop, Saccharissa Mellasys [in Century]. De
tar-kittle’s a-bilin’ on de keen jump.
Jump-down, subs. (colonial).—See quot. Also jumping off place; a
destination.
1885. Staveley Hill, From Home to Home. Colonially known as the
jump-down, that is the last place that is in course of erection on
the outskirts of what is called civilized life.
1887. Scribner’s Magazine. It is a sort of jumping-off-place.
Jumped-up, adj. phr. (common).—Conceited; arrogant: also perturbed;
upset.
Jumper, subs. (old).—1. See quot.
1821. D. Haggart, Life, Glossary, p. 172. Jumper, a
tenpenny-piece.—Ibid. p. 114. I got three jumpers and a kid’s-eye.