leap out

Verb

Meaning

be highly noticeable

jump out from a hiding place and surprise (someone)

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Examples

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun. Miguel de Cervantes

I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude. Anne Frank

it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams. Virginia Woolf

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. Walter Benjamin

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours. Rachel Kushner

How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? Charles Bukowski

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