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Idiom · C2 · Neutral · usually critical or cautionary

jump to conclusions

jump tuh kun-KLOO-zhunz Stress jump and conclusions; to is reduced in natural speech.

Decide what is true too quickly, before you have enough facts or evidence.

donositi preuranjene zaključke; brzopleto zaključiti

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.

Build the sentence

jump to conclusions · jump to the conclusion that + clause

Let’s notjump to conclusionsbefore the audit is complete

Memory scene

A person leaps over a trail of unexamined clues and evidence stones toward a premature verdict platform.

A person leaps over every evidence stone and lands at the verdict. The conclusion arrives before the investigation.

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

closestassume too quickly

The closest plain paraphrase and suitable in any register.

formalrush to judgment

More formal and often concerns unfairly judging a person or case.

differentjump the gun

Means act too soon, not necessarily form an unsupported belief.

Make it yours

Situacija

Kolega vidi jedan neuspešan test i odmah tvrdi da ceo sistem ne radi.

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