Meaning of jump the queue in English:
jump the queue
phrase
1British Push into a queue of people in order to be served or dealt with before one's turn.
‘he jumped the queue at the ticket counter’- ‘Things get even more unbelievable when I am met by a minder at the airport and get to jump the queue to get my passport checked and suitcase scanned.’
- ‘We realised when they started shouting that we must have jumped the queue, so Mark waved the taxi on rather than getting in.’
- ‘Richard Kelly, prosecuting, said fists and hands flailed in a Chelmsford fish and chip shop early in the morning of December 21 when the three thought a man had jumped the queue.’
- ‘Angry music fans were unable to buy tickets for the U2 concert in Manchester next year after a gang of up to 50 men jumped the queue.’
- ‘A woman contacted police after she was punched in the face by a shopper claiming she had jumped the queue.’
- ‘When we found someone to explain our situation, we were at first told to jump the queue, and then told that we would not make our flight.’
- ‘If you've never been there before, just follow the sign, don't jump the queue and order your drink politely.’
- ‘To be honest, if someone came into the loos and asked politely to jump the queue, I would rarely refuse.’
- ‘Any person who tries to jump the queue by smiling, gesturing or otherwise trying to attract the bar person's attention will receive nothing except a polite smile in reply.’
- ‘At one point the farmers got to fighting on the doorstep when one of them tried to jump the queue.’
- 1.1Take unfair precedence over others.‘the old boy networks were one way of jumping the promotion queue’
- ‘Moves to prevent drifters jumping the queue for council homes in Scarborough have been rejected by housing officers as too complicated.’
- ‘Because addicts who are sent to the drug court go on a methadone programme immediately, critics say criminals are jumping the queue.’
- ‘But not only have they jumped the queue; they have turned public opinion against any kind of immigration.’
- ‘Many are under the misunderstanding that if they arrive at casualty in an ambulance they'll jump the queue.’
- ‘HMS Achilles was next in line for a refit - but the enemy submarine is in such bad shape it may have to jump the queue.’
- ‘Bob was lucky that he had the funds to jump the queue and get treatment that was not available to people who do not have money.’
- ‘In the case of medical care, I'd like to see an end of the private sector and people jumping the queue because they have more money than others.’
- ‘Private clinics have popped up in several provinces, offering quicker diagnostic care for those willing to pay hundreds of dollars to jump the queue.’
- ‘A decade later, at the EU Luxembourg summit, Turkey watched several former communist countries jump the queue, while it was not even considered a candidate for accession.’
- ‘Asylum seekers, they say, are portrayed as no more than a nuisance, seen as jumping local authority housing queues, and causing a serious drain on the public purse.’
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