jumping-off pointnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˌdʒʌm.pɪŋˈɒf ˌpɔɪnt/us/ˌdʒʌm.pɪŋˈɑːf ˌpɔɪnt/a point from which to start a journey or activity
an idea, example, or piece of information that is used to begin a process or activity:
Using his daughter's case as a jumping-off point, he described a justice system that ignores the rights of the victim.
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Beginnings and starts
- a baptism of/by fire idiom
- a clean sheet/slate idiom
- advent
- baptism
- beginning
- clean
- go/be back to square one idiom
- inception
- initiation
- institution
- introduction
- onset
- seed
- square
- starting time
- the outset
- the thin end of the wedge idiom
- thin
- trigger
- zero hour
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