jump through hoops

idiom

informal

: to do a complicated or annoying series of things in order to get or achieve something

We had to jump through a lot of hoops to get a loan from the bank.

It shouldn't be necessary to jump through hoops to get a computer to work properly.

Examples of jump through hoops in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Scott-Parker points out that this is a high risk strategy for businesses, where bare minimum disability support is offered and employees have to jump through hoops to participate. —Nancy Doyle, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025

Providing great patient care is just the first step for US healthcare providers; getting paid for that care takes much longer, requiring their staff to jump through hoops with health insurers. —David Prosser, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025

Robin Williams and Nathan Lane are phenomenal as a gay couple forced to jump through hoops for their son’s new in-laws, played wonderfully by Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest. —Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025

Ben Stiller had to jump through hoops to make sure Meet the Fockers avoided an R rating. —Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024

Rhymes for jump through hoops

• semigroups
• coops
• coupes
• droops
• dupes
• groups
• loops
• oops
• scoops
• sloops
• soups
• stoops