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/dʒˈəmpɪŋ əp ənd daʊn/ Listen

Jumping up and down

noun

Jumping in one spot (as in excitement).

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... gratification, half of loneliness. He stood there, a little apart from the rest of them, clutching his box, and holding on to Hamlet's lead, feeling so deeply excited that his heart was like a hard, cold stone jumping up and down, bump, bump, ...

— Jeremy • Hugh Walpole

... anything. He just ran, and soon he came to the place where Flossie and Freddie had gone to play shipwreck. He saw Flossie jumping up and down in front ...

— The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat • Laura Lee Hope

... gasp of wonderment, immediately followed by a buzz of exclamation. The croupiers were smiling. Jill was jumping up and down in her seat. Adele was shaking Jonah by the arm. My sister was clinging to Berry, imploring him to "stop now." The two Frenchmen were laughing and nodding their congratulations. The little old lady was bowing and beaming good-will. Excepting, ...

— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates

... observed little Anna, who, being too young to help, and liable to be tempted to put her fingers into the good things, was sent to amuse herself with jumping up and down ...

— Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau

... them, Willis Parker was jumping up and down, gesticulating and shouting fiercely. "Now I guess you're satisfied our fishin' is spoilt! Whyn't you listen me? I told you it wasn't more'n three feet deep! I and Heinie waded all over this creek gettin' our ...

— Ramsey Milholland • Booth Tarkington

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