I find this "jump" business suspicious.
Who jumped off of what.. or jumped onto who?
Did they jump on a bed or out of an airplane or what?
We really need some clarity on this "jump" business.
They jumped out of the frying pan into the fired...................
The first thing I thought, after reading the sentence, was that it sounded like a black expression that derives from the fact that a basketball game starts with a “jump ball.”
A jump is the start of things...