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jumping-off place

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jump·ing-off place (jmpng-ôf, -f)
n.
1. A beginning point for a journey or venture.
2. A very remote spot.
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Noun1.jumping-off place - a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched; "one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him"; "my point of departure was San Francisco"
point of departure
origin, source, root, rootage, beginning - the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
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Thus, in Washington, the conceit that life amid the political establishment resembles high school, which would seem a serviceable jumping-off place for some more trenchant point, is the point, made at such excruciating length that the reader is finally tempted to disagree with it, if only to achieve traction.
WASHINGTON by Noah, Timothy / Washington Monthly
Daffern was stationed most of the time in Fort Worth, Texas, but did one temporary stint in Goose Bay, Labrador, a jumping-off place for troops on their way to England.
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Craig uses Aesop's fable as a jumping-off place for her lively, imaginative story, told in a modern style.
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse by Jenks, Carolyn K. / The Horn Book Magazine
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