jump at

present singular third person jumps at · participle present jumping at · participle past jumped at · past jumped at

1. idiomaticTo accept (an opportunity, chance, job etc.) quickly and eagerly.

   I jumped at the position as soon as it was offered.

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   In the circumstances he jumped at the easiest thing—he drifted past the lane with an amiable wave of recognition, pedalled slowly along until he had given the other man ample time to have gone well away, then turned and leisurely resumed his interrupted progress in the same direction.

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London