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单词 hop, skip, and a jump
释义

hop, skip, and a jump

or hop, skip, and jump


noun

a short distance: The laundry is just a hop, skip, and a jump away.

Origin of hop, skip, and a jump

First recorded in 1750–60

Words nearby hop, skip, and a jump

Hoppus foot, hops, hopsack, hopsacking, hopscotch, hop, skip, and a jump, hop, step, and jump, hoptoad, hop to it, hoptree, hop trefoil
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Idioms and Phrases with hop, skip, and a jump

hop, skip, and a jump

A short distance, as in It's just a hop, skip, and a jump from my house to yours. This expression, dating from the early 1700s, originally referred to an exercise or game involving these movements, but by the mid-1800s was also being used figuratively for the short distance so covered.

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