jump the shark

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Of television program or other narrative, to undergo a storyline development which heralds a fundamental and generally disappointing change in direction. idiomatic
    — Happy Days infamously jumped the shark when Fonzie literally jumped a shark on water skis. I Love Lucy jumped the shark when Lucy and Ricky moved to the suburbs. The Brady Bunch jumped the shark when Cousin Oliver moved in.
  2. To experience a decline in quality, appeal, popularity, etc. broadly,idiomatic
    — Pintsize: Wait, don’t you want to know why I’m tied up and hanging from the ceiling? Faye: Not really. Nighty night! Pintsize: Shit! My wacky antics have jumped the shark!

词形变化

jumps the shark present,singular,third-person jumping the shark participle,present jumped the shark participle,past jumped the shark past

词汇关系

衍生词
shark-jumping
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词源

From Hollywood (Part 3), an episode in 1977 during the fifth season of the American television series Happy Days, in which the character Fonzie jumped over a shark on waterskis. The expression argues that it was at this point that the show bore no similarity to its original form.
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