Jumping-the-gun Sentence Examples

You may not consider yourself much of a sports person. But if you’ve ever been blindsided, on the ropes or behind the eight ball, you’re sportier than you think. Sports are so infused in modern culture that there’s no getting away from them — and chances are, you use popular sports idioms in your everyday conversation.

Idioms are words or phrases that aren’t meant to be taken literally. Webster's New World adds "[It] has a meaning that differs from the literal meaning of its parts taken together." For example, if you say someone has “cold feet,” it doesn’t mean their toes are actually cold. Rather, it means they’re nervous about something.