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jumping-off place

  [juhm-ping-awf, -of]
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–noun
1. a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
2. an out-of-the-way place; the farthest limit of anything settled or civilized.
Origin:
1820–30, Americanism
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