Welcome to the English We Speak.
I'm Jiayin.
And I'm Rob.
In this program,
we have an expression to use when we want to say something is difficult to achieve
because there are things preventing us from reaching our goal.
The expression is jump through hoops.
Jump through hoops?
It's metaphorical language.
We wouldn't actually jump through a hoop to achieve something, would we?
No, we wouldn't.
But imagine if we actually did have to jump through hoops.
That will be very difficult.
And that's the sense of this expression.
What we mean is you have to do something difficult to get to the result you want.
Furthermore, the effort involved is often unnecessary.
The process is just made more complicated.
Right.
So you mean there's really no need to jump through the hoops to achieve the end result?
A bit like trying to get a refund from my airline ticket.