{"id":71968,"date":"2019-09-11T06:15:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71968"},"modified":"2019-09-11T06:34:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:34:06","slug":"jump-to-conclusions-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/jump-to-conclusions-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Jump To Conclusions | Keep Your Fingers Crossed | English Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To jump to conclusions<\/strong> is to decide something without having all the facts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Please don\u2019t <strong>jump to conclusions<\/strong> until you hear what I have to say.<\/li>\n<li>Befor<strong>e jumping to conclusions<\/strong> you must get your facts right.<\/li>\n<li>I incorrectly blamed him for breaking my window. I shouldn\u2019t have<strong> jumped to conclusions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Why did you accuse him of stealing your purse? It wasn\u2019t him. You shouldn\u2019t jump to conclusions before getting your facts right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Keep your fingers crossed<\/h3>\n<p>If you are keeping your fingers crossed, you are hoping for a good outcome for someone or something.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I would like Alan to win the championship. I am<strong> keeping my fingers crossed<\/strong> for him.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t even have a one in ten chance of winning, but I am <strong>keeping my fingers crossed.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I hope it doesn\u2019t get worse. Let\u2019s <strong>cross our fingers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t think our team will win, but we better<strong> keep our fingers crossed.<\/strong> (= Let\u2019s hope for the best.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To jump to conclusions is to decide something without having all the facts. Please don\u2019t jump to conclusions until you hear what I have to say. Before jumping to conclusions you must get your&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1096,393,1095,1097],"class_list":["post-71968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-english-idiom-jump-to-conclusion","tag-english-idioms","tag-jump-to-conclusions","tag-keep-your-fingers-crossed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71971,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71968\/revisions\/71971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}