idiom · informal

jump for joy

UK/dʒʌmp fɔː dʒɔɪ/US/dʒʌmp fɔr dʒɔɪ/JUMP·for·JOY

speaking

to be extremely happy

Examples

“When she heard she’d won the scholarship, she jumped for joy.”

“He jumped for joy when his team finally scored.”

“I literally jumped for joy when I got the internship offer.”

Band 8 sentence

“When the admissions email arrived, she literally jumped for joy — all those months of hard work had finally paid off.”

Collocations

  • jump for joy at
  • jump for joy when
  • jump for joy over

Word family

jump for joy idiom (base)jumped for joy idiom (past)jumping for joy idiom (participle)

Common mistakes

Yesterday I jump for joy when I passed the exam.→Yesterday I jumped for joy when I passed the exam.

She jumped with joy when she heard the news.→She jumped for joy when she heard the news.

Say it for a higher band

5be happy→6be pleased→7+jump for joy

Synonyms

be ecstatic

Easily confused

jump to conclusions

“Don't jump to conclusions before you have all the facts.”

Related words

be on cloud ninedown in the dumpson edgekeep a stiff upper lipwear one's heart on one's sleevelet off steamhead over heels (in love)be over the moon

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