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Jack around

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jack around (third-person singular simple present jacks around, present participle jacking around, simple past and past participle jacked around)
1. (idiomatic) to misbehave, fool around
2. (idiomatic) to dawdle, to waste time

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Jack in

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jack in (third-person singular simple present jacks in, present participle jacking in, simple past and past participle jacked in)
1. (transitive, idiomatic, UK) To stop doing a regular activity. Often a job or studies.
? I've had enough of working nights, so I'm going to jack in my job.
? I'm going to jack my job in.
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Jack o'lantern

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Jack o’ lantern (plural jack o'lanterns)
1. (idiomatic, English folklore) will o' the wisp, a strange light that attracts travellers
2. (US, tradition) A vegetable, usually a pumpkin, but alternatively a turnip, carved into the form of a face and lighted within by a candle. Associated chiefly with the holiday Halloween.

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Jack of all trades

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A jack of all trades is a person who can do many different things but is not very good at any one of them..
jack of all trades, master of none
1. (idiomatic) A person who has a competent grasp of many skills but who is not outstanding in any one.

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I'm looking for a skilled worker, not a jack-of-all-trades.



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Jack off

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An annoying person or one who has committed a transgression with no or insufficient apology; a jerk, an asshole.

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Jack tar

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Jack Tar (plural Jack Tars)
1. (UK, idiomatic) Alternative spelling of jacktar.

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Jam sandwich

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jam sandwich (plural jam sandwiches)
1. Used other than as an idiom: see jam,‎ sandwich.
2. (UK, slang) (from the common UK colour scheme of white with a red reflective horizontal band) A police car.

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Jam tomorrow

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jam tomorrow (uncountable)
1. (idiomatic) Promised benefits that never arrive.


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Jane doe

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Jane Doe (plural Jane Does)
1. (idiomatic) Female equivalent of John Doe.

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Jane roe

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Jane Roe (plural Jane Roes)
1. (idiomatic) Female equivalent of John Doe.

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Jaw away

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jaw away
1. (intransitive, idiomatic) to jabber; to gabble; to ramble

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Jaw drops

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If someone's jaw drops, they show total amazement.

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When the prize was announced, the winner's jaw dropped.



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Jazz something up

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If you jazz something up, you add something to try to improve it or make it more stylish.

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The dress needs a scarf or a necklace to jazz it up.



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Jerk around

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jerk around (third-person singular simple present jerks around, present participle jerking around, simple past and past participle jerked around)
1. (idiomatic) to cheat or treat unfairly
2. (intransitive) To act foolishly

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Jerk off

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jerk off (third-person singular simple present jerks off, present participle jerking off, simple past and past participle jerked off)
1. (dated) Used other than as an idiom: see jerk,‎ off.
2. (idiomatic, slang) To masturbate, usually a male.
3. (intransitive, vulgar) To do nothing; to waste time.
? Stop jerking off. We've got a

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Jerk-off

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jerk-off (plural jerk-offs) Alternative spelling of jerkoff.
1. (idiomatic, colloquial) Someone who behaves rudely or inappropriately, or is ignorant of certain social norms, usually a male.
2. (idiomatic, vulgar) Someone who masturbates, usually a male.


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Jerkoff

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jerkoff (plural jerkoffs)
1. (vulgar, rare) One who masturbates.
2. (idiomatic, vulgar) A mean, nasty or obnoxious person.

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Jesus, mary and joseph

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Jesus, Mary and Joseph
1. (idiomatic) Used to add emphasis, particularly by Catholics.

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Jet set

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jet set (plural jet sets)
1. (idiomatic) A set of wealthy people who travel for pleasure
jet-set (comparative more jet set, superlative most jet set)
1. Relating to the life style of the jet set.


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Jet-setter

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jet setter (plural jet-setters)
1. (idiomatic) A member of the jet set, a rich person who travels for pleasure

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Jet-setting

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jet-setting (uncountable)
1. (idiomatic) The actions of the jet set; travelling from one fashionable location to another by jet.

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Jill of all trades

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jill of all trades (plural jills of all trades)
1. (idiomatic) A woman competent in many endeavors, especially one who excels in none of them.


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Jive turkey

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jive turkey (plural jive turkeys)
1. (US, idiomatic, slang) Someone who is jiving, as in dancing. Often applied to people being funny or showy.
2. (US, idiomatic, slang) Someone who is jiving, as in behaving in a glib and disingenuous fashion.

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Joe average

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Joe Average
1. (idiomatic) A hypothetical average or generic individual; the common man (or person, by extension).
? Write the instructions so that any Joe Average can understand them.

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Joe job

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joe job (plural joe jobs)
1. (idiomatic) An uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job.
2. (US, idiomatic, computing) An act of e-mail spamming where the sender's identity and address are those of an innocent third party, intended either to tarnish that person's reputation or to flood that person's e-mail with bounces.

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Joe public

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Joe Public
1. (idiomatic) A hypothetical average or generic member of the public; the common man (or person, by extension).
? Quoting Joe Public proved a dangerous game in the 2008 US presidential elections after he was personified in Joe 'the' Plumber, an actual plumber without previous media exposure.

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Joe sixpack

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Joe Sixpack
1. (slang, idiomatic) The “average person”.
2. (slang, Internet) Somebody without particular expertise or interest in computers or the Internet; a nontechie.

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Jog on

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jog on (third-person singular simple present jogs on, present participle jogging on, simple past and past participle jogged on)
1. (idiomatic) To continue with one's pursuit
jog on
1. (idiomatic, dismissal) go away, fuck off

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Jog someone's memory

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When you help someone to remember something they have forgotten, you jog their memory.

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You don't remember who was with us that day? Here's a photograph to jog your memory.



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John doe

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John Doe (plural John Does)
1. A fictitious name used in the legal documents for an unknown or anonymous male person.
2. (idiomatic) Any unknown or anonymous male person.
? 1885: i.e. "to Tom, Dick or Harry:" the names like John Doe and Richard Roe are used indefinitely in Arab. — The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 4 Footnote 5, Richard

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John hancock

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John Hancock (plural John Hancocks)
1. (idiomatic) One's signature.
? Please put your John Hancock on the dotted line to close the deal.

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John henry

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John Henry (plural John Henrys)
1. (idiomatic) One's signature.


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John q. public

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John Q. Public (uncountable)
1. (idiomatic) A generic individual; some hypothetical average or ordinary citizen.
? Even careful safety precautions in the factory do not make it a good place for John Q. Public to wander unattended.

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John thomas

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John Thomas (uncountable)
1. (idiomatic, slang) The penis

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Johnny-come-lately

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Johnny-come-lately (plural Johnny-come-latelies)
1. (idiomatic) A newcomer; a novice; an upstart.
? She might take offense if some Johnny-come-lately thinks he can do a better job.

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Johnny-one-note

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Johnny-one-note (plural Johnny-one-notes)
1. (idiomatic, chiefly US, Canada) A person (or organization) who often expresses a strong opinion or viewpoint on a single subject or a few particular subjects.
2. (idiomatic, chiefly US, Canada) An opinion or viewpoint on a single subject or a few particular subjects which is frequently expressed by a person or orga

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Join the club

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join the club
1. (idiomatic) An expression of sympathy for a shared experience.
? You're getting poor response times? Join the club!

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Jolly someone along

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jolly someone along
1. (idiomatic, informal) To make someone happy or compliant, as by encouragement or flattery.
? When there was a shipping delay, the salesman jollied the purchasing agent along to keep him from canceling the order.

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Jot down

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jot down (third-person singular simple present jots down, present participle jotting down, simple past and past participle jotted down)
1. (idiomatic, transitive) to write down hurriedly; to make a note of
? Tell me his number, and I'll jot it down on this scrap of paper.

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Jug ears

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jug ears (plural only)
1. (idiomatic) Ears whose plane is markedly not parallel to the plane of the head.


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Juggle frogs

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A person who is juggling frogs is trying to deal with many different tasks at the tame time and finding the situation difficult.

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I've got so many things to do at the moment, I feel like I'm juggling frogs!



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Juggle frogs

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A person who is juggling frogs is trying to deal with many different tasks at the tame time and finding the situation diffficult.

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I've got so many things to do at the moment, I feel like I'm juggling frogs!



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Juice up

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juice up (third-person singular simple present juices up, present participle juicing up, simple past and past participle juiced up)
1. (idiomatic, informal) to charge, to charge up
? I need to juice up my phone because the battery's dead.

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Jump at

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jump at
1. (idiomatic) To accept something enthusiastically. Usually an opportunity, or chance, or job etc.
? I jumped at the position as soon as it was offered.

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Jump at the chance

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jump at the chance
1. (idiomatic) To immediately accept an offer; to seize an opportunity.
? When I was offered a placement working at the South Pole, I jumped at the chance.

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Jump down someone's throat

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If someone jumps down another person's throat, they suddenly start shouting at them in a very angry manner.

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When I said the instructions were not very clear, she jumped down my throat!



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Jump down throat

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If someone jumps down another person's throat, they suddenly start shouting at them in a very angry manner.

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When I said the instructions were not very clear, she jumped down my throat!



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Jump for joy

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When people jump for joy, they express their happiness through excited movements and gestures.
jump for joy
1. (idiomatic) exalt, rejoice, feel elation.

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The player jumped for joy when he scored the winning goal.



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Jump in one's skin

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jump in one's skin
1. (idiomatic) To start with fright.


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Jump in the deep end

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When you jump in (or are thrown in) at the deep end, you do something without any help or preparation, in an area where you have little or no experience.

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He got a job as a salesman, for which he had no training, so he just had to jump in at the deep end.



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