Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—J

Jump

To jump or to fit or unite with like a graft; as, both our inventions meet and jump in one. Hence the adverb exactly, precisely.

“Good advice is easily followed when it jumps with our own ... inclinations.” —Lockhart: Sir Walter Scott, chap. x. p. 241 The Scotch use jimp, as, “When she had been married jimp four months” (The Antiquary.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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