jump for joy

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jump for joy (third-person singular simple present jumps for joy, present participle jumping for joy, simple past and past participle jumped for joy)

  1. (idiomatic) To exult, rejoice, or feel elation.
    • 2002, John [Peter] Sugden, “Five Past One, September 2001”, in Scum Airways: Inside Football’s Underground Economy, Edinburgh; London: Mainstream Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 177:
      The whole of England held its breath as [David] Beckham stepped back, looked up, paused, and, well, bent it like Beckham into the top corner. The nation's roofs lifted off. […] I too leapt into the air and jumped for joy when Beckham's shot hit the back of the net.

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