Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is jump the gun and it is a phrase meaning “to do or begin something before the proper time or before everyone else (mostly used in sports when an athlete (sprinter) starts running before firing the starter gun)”.
Example Sentence: While the aggregated data at the national level inspires the good work done by the NIE-ICMR scientists and other researchers in the collaboration, it is not a reason to celebrate in enthusing unreasonable optimism. We should be careful and not jump the gun in declaring that we are nearing the threshold of population immunity at the national level.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article A serosurvey template for the whole of India and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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