VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Jump Through Hoops

Meaning:

Complete a series of tasks in order to satisfy someone

Examples:

  • People have to jump through hoops to be reimbursed for treatment received abroad, and it is very difficult for them to find the information they need.
  • Get this monkey to jump through hoops.
  • I jump through hoops for you and you do this?
  • Now we don't have to jump through hoops to prove ourselves, do we?
  • I've got better things to do than jump through hoops for a publicity stunt.
  • But they don't go far enough, because they make people jump through hoops.
  • You tried to make it sit, heel, jump through hoops.
  • Yeah, my high school coach, he had to jump through hoops to get me seen by a Royals recruiter.
  • I do not think that, in view of this, we should try and make all the applicants jump through hoops to participate.
  • I had to jump through hoops all night for Barney and then it took me an hour to get home because his place is so far away from the bar.