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ORIGIN:
Jet refers to jet planes. Set is a group of people. After the introduction of travel by swift jet planes in the late 1950s, the term jet set caught on to describe rich and fashionable people who rarely stayed in one place for any length of time. They were always flying off to a party in Hollywood, or to a luxurious home in Spain. Today, to be a member of a jet set, you just have to be a member of high society. The rhyming words have caught the popular imagination and made this a widely used phrase.
jump on the bandwagon примазаться / примкнуть (к успешному начинанию / делу) M E A N I N G : to join or give support to a political party, or a person or movement which seems to be assured of success Last year nobody liked my idea of a school carnival. Now everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon. ORIGIN: Many years ago candidates for political office in the United States often rode through town in horse drawn wagons on which a band was playing music to attract a crowd. If the candidate was popular, people would jump up onto his bandwagon to show their support. jump the gun опережать события; забегать вперед; бежать впереди паровоза M E A N I N G : to do or say something before you should; to act prematurely or hastily I couldn’t wait to give my mother her Mother’s Day gift, so I jumped the gun and gave it to her a week early. ORIGIN: In the early 1900s this expression was to beat the pistol. It referred to someone starting a race before the starter’s pistol was fired. Later the saying changed to jump the gun, perhaps because of the repetition of the u sound in the middle of jump and gun.
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