jump at the chance

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

1. idiomaticTo immediately accept an offer; to seize an opportunity.

   Security guard or not, Michael had jumped at the chance to steal, or in his parlance ‘twoc’, the bus.

   2016, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons & Rob Gibbons, Alan Partridge: Nomad, page 171

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   "What in the hell is wrong with my offer? Any woman within a hundred miles would jump at the chance to become my wife." She stared at him, incredulous. "Well, pin a rose on your nose, you cocky bastard. […]

   1996, Jane Bonander, Winter Heart, page 117

   When two other refugees asked him to help set up a Piaget distributorship in New York, he jumped at the chance.

   2009 January 7, Douglas Martin, “G. Grinberg, Watch Baron, Dies at 77”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2020

   When we learned that the O.E.D. Online was revamped late last year, we jumped at the chance to learn more about how this esteemed publication (which first stirred to life in 1857) was adapting itself for a modern online audience.

   2011 January 14, J. D. Biersdorfer, “ArtsBeat: The revamped O.E.D. Online”, in New York Times Blog, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2021

   She would probably jump at the chance to show everyone how to save an obscene amount of money with an obscene amount of coupons.

   2015 February, Vivi Barnes, chapter 18, in Stacy Abrams, Tara Quigley, editors, Paper or Plastic, Fort Collins, Colo.: Entangled Teen, Entangled Publishing, →ISBN

   That’s why, when I received a message that my one-time chocolate-making mentor, Philippe Vetault, was retiring from his Brittany-based chocolaterie, I jumped at the chance to attend his au revoir party.

   2017, Colette London [pseudonym; Lisa Plumley], Dead and Ganache, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 3

   Synonyms: jump at the opportunity, seize the opportunity