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jump the gun
USUK
to do something too early, before the right time or before you have enough information
From a runner who starts before the starting gun. Usually critical.
In context
Let's not jump the gun and book the venue before the client agrees.
Some newspapers jumped the gun and announced the winner before the votes were counted.
More idioms about decisions
- a Catch-22a situation you can't escape because each solution depends on the other
- a change of hearta change in your opinion or plan, usually towards a kinder or different view
- a double-edged swordsomething that has both good and bad effects
- a fait accomplisomething already decided or done that others must now accept
- a foregone conclusiona result that is certain before it happens