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Meanings of jump the shark in English

Russian
прыжок через акулу
Spanish
jumping the shark

English idiom.

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        Examples for "jumping the shark"
        Examples for "jumping the shark"
        1
        And so we have the week of jumping the shark in Westminster.
        The Guardian
        2
        You say it was Lost jumping the shark.
        The Guardian
        3
        No comment on whether doling out state honours to headline grabbing celebrities was " jumping the shark".
        The Guardian
        4
        The ultimate in jumping the shark.
        The Guardian
        5
        Critics like to talk about TV programmes jumping the shark but Countdown has never jumped the shark, because Countdown is the shark.
        The Guardian
        1
        At which point, the entire thing had pretty much jumped the shark.
        The Guardian
        2
        So to mix pop cultural expressions, has the Inception horn jumped the shark?
        News.com.au
        3
        Sobering claim of the day Politics has jumped the shark.
        The Guardian
        4
        To use an egregiously overused expression, ADNY was where fine dining jumped the shark.
        Medium raw: a bloody valentine to the world of food and the peop...
        5
        But that isn't to say that Lost jumped the shark.
        The Guardian
        Usage of jump the shark in English
        1
        Every single person who's tried to jump the shark has always drowned.
        The new yorker
        2
        This is where MKR has its jump the shark season.
        News.com.au
        3
        I've noticed that often memes that take off on the internet reach their peak and jump the shark the moment they appear on CNN.
        Wired
        4
        And so we have the week of jumping the shark in Westminster.
        The Guardian
        5
        At which point, the entire thing had pretty much jumped the shark.
        The Guardian
        6
        Jumping the shark away from the brunch brigade is a big leap.
        The Irish Times
        7
        So to mix pop cultural expressions, has the Inception horn jumped the shark?
        News.com.au
        8
        Sobering claim of the day Politics has jumped the shark.
        The Guardian
        9
        To use an egregiously overused expression, ADNY was where fine dining jumped the shark.
        Medium raw: a bloody valentine to the world of food and the peop...
        10
        But that isn't to say that Lost jumped the shark.
        The Guardian
        11
        I'd jumped the shark on that one too many times.
        Stand by your hitman
        12
        But we want to call it now -they may have jumped the shark.
        News.com.au
        13
        Are you excited about new FlashForward episodes, or has this show already jumped the shark?
        Wired
        14
        OK, it might have jumped the shark a bit.
        The Guardian
        15
        But the bikini tops have completely jumped the shark to use a marvellously appropriate beach metaphor.
        News.com.au
        16
        You say it was Lost jumping the shark.
        The Guardian
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