"get a jump start" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe beginning a task, with energy and enthusiasm. For example, "I'm ready to get a jump start on my research project."
"He was a new light that this team needed to just get a jump start".
Mom and Dad are more than happy to get a jump start on the passion front, practically a requisite for admission these days.
Most of the big albums of the summer won't be out for weeks, but you can get a jump start on your seasonal reads.
AT&T, which is itself in the midst of a big restructuring to reduce its dependence on long-distance telephone services, aims to use NorthPoint to get a jump start into selling high-speed Internet connections.
In the past several decades, research in North America, Australia and Africa has shown that many plant species that repopulate a burned area of forest or brush get a jump start from the fire's smoke.
Articles invite them to test-fire the Remington EtronX Model 700, "part of the new wave of guns", or to head to the NRA's annual exhibition in Charlotte, North Carolina, to get "a jump start" on the latest firepower.It is the advertisements, though, that make the blood run cold.
Thus did Texas Instruments, Fairchild and Sony get a jump-start on a multibillion-dollar field.
Consider using any extra income, like a year-end bonus, to get a jump-start.
For those of you eager to get a jump-start on spring cleaning, why not begin with the garage?
But after Jones won the 197-pound national junior college championship in 2006, he transferred to get a jump-start on a career as a police officer.
Leather was a favorite on the recent fall runways, and warming temperatures allowed forward-thinking women to get a jump-start on the sexy trend-to-be.
