Idiom · C2 · Neutral · usually critical or cautionary
jump to conclusions
Decide what is true too quickly, before you have enough facts or evidence.
donositi preuranjene zaključke; brzopleto zaključiti
Memory scene
A person leaps over every evidence stone and lands at the verdict. The conclusion arrives before the investigation.
How it sounds
jump tuh kun-KLOO-zhunz
Stress jump and conclusions; to is reduced in natural speech.
Build the sentence
jump to conclusions · jump to the conclusion that + clause
Use it
When the server stopped responding, we jumped to the conclusion that the update had caused it.
The singular form introduces one specific conclusion with that.
Don’t jump to conclusions about her silence; she may not have seen the message.
About introduces the person or situation being judged too soon.
Watch out
The fixed general idiom normally uses plural conclusions. Use jump to the conclusion that when naming one exact belief; do not say jump into a conclusion.
Nearby language
The closest plain paraphrase and suitable in any register.
More formal and often concerns unfairly judging a person or case.
Means act too soon, not necessarily form an unsupported belief.
Make it yours
Kolega vidi jedan neuspešan test i odmah tvrdi da ceo sistem ne radi.