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jumps the gun

vb. (en-third-person singular of: jump the gun)

Usage examples of "jumps the gun".

A hunter gets eaten up by a bear and your little lady there jumps the gun.

And if he jumps the gun, we'll forfeit what little time we might have had left.

Somebody on one side or the other jumps the gun, and the shooting starts.