词汇 | jump the broom with |
词源 | jump the broom with. To marry. “He jumped the broom with her years ago.” The phrase derives from the ancient prac- tice, once legal in many places, of broomstick marriages, when couples only had to jump over a broomstick held by two people to be declared man and wife. |
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