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Gun Jump Start Ahead Company Jumped Releasing Product

Idiom (to) jump the gun
Meaning to start doing something too soon or ahead of everybody else
Example The company jumped the gun by releasing a new product before the results of the consumer testing were in.

origin: A runner "jumps the gun" if he or she starts running before the starter's pistol has been fired.

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