Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 6 July 2022 By moving more toward TikTok, Binance will appeal to a younger audience that has traditionally been more keen to jump into crypto. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022 Tech basketball coach Damon Turner said there is no rush for the Titans to jump into another conference with the NCC affiliation intact for another 11 months. Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2022 When opportunity knocked in the midst a global pandemic, mariachi music champion Jeff Nevin didn’t hesitate to jump into action. Recent Examples on the Web: Verb After fans booed and Dillon appeared to offer an explanation, the officer backed off and allowed Dillon to jump into the stands.įox News, 25 July 2022 During a show on Saturday in Toronto at the Scotiabank Arena as part of their Public Service Announcement North American tour, a fan snuck onstage and tried to jump into the crowd.Īmethyst Tate,, 25 July 2022 For me, singing involves taking a real risk to jump into something to do that. Silicon Valley has “ jumped the shark” and lacks innovation, venture capitalist Peter Thiel says. Jeffry Cudlin, Washington Post, 27 Feb. Not everyone agrees when Picasso's art jumped the shark. The phrase is no longer limited to contexts involving entertainment anything that undergoes a significant change for the worse that marks the start of a period of decline can be said to have 'jumped the shark':

Laura Compton, San Francisco Chronicle, 2009īut in its headlong embrace of capitalism and corporate tie-ins, “Sex and the City” may have finally jumped the shark. Most TV series take three seasons to jump the shark, but in the theater it can happen in 20 minutes … Such is the nature of television's creative conundrum. Nearly all TV shows ever produced have jumped the shark eventually. Some years later that episode came to be widely identified as marking the beginning of the iconic show's decline, and its plot device became a metaphor for similar transformations: The origin of the phrase jump the shark is tucked neatly in that previous sentence: it comes from a 1977 episode of the American TV series “Happy Days” (1974–1984) in which the program's most popular character, Fonzie, jumps over a shark while waterskiing in his trademark leather jacket. The happy days of its golden age are over. When something jumps the shark it undergoes a significant change for the worse and is on a new trajectory of unrecoverable decline.

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