| 释义 |
jump the queue (or US jump in line)1Push into a queue of people in order to be served or dealt with before one’s turn: he jumped the queue at the ticket counter...- Things get even more unbelievable when I am met by a minder at the airport and get to jump the queue to get my passport checked and suitcase scanned.
- We realised when they started shouting that we must have jumped the queue, so Mark waved the taxi on rather than getting in.
- Richard Kelly, prosecuting, said fists and hands flailed in a Chelmsford fish and chip shop early in the morning of December 21 when the three thought a man had jumped the queue.
1.1Take unfair precedence over others: the old boy networks were one way of jumping the promotion queue...- Moves to prevent drifters jumping the queue for council homes in Scarborough have been rejected by housing officers as too complicated.
- Because addicts who are sent to the drug court go on a methadone programme immediately, critics say criminals are jumping the queue.
- But not only have they jumped the queue; they have turned public opinion against any kind of immigration.
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