jump through hoops

Meaning

1. to do sth difficult or complicated in order to achieve sth

In the movies · 3

• I've asked you five times to jump through this hoop.Leo2023
• So he can make me jump through a million hoops?Rye Lane2023
• or jump through the hoop to have a relationship with a child.Won't You Be My Neighbor?2018

Learn it in full scenes

• Rye Lane2023
  • Yas Teases Dom at His Gallery Show
  • Yas Buys Nathan's Photo at the Show
  • Dom and Yas Meet in Peckham

From the same entry

• be jumping up and down
• jump down throat
• jump the gun
• jump the lights
• jump out of your skin
• jump the queue
• jump the rails
• jump the shark
• jump ship
• jump to it
• climb on the bandwagon
• jump to conclusions