present participle of look before one leaps

(historical) A vast economic and social plan lasting from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use the Chinese population to rapidly transform the Communist China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through agriculturalization and industrialization, but failed disastrously (resulting in massive famine and the deaths of many millions of people).

A year that does not contain the day February 29.

plural of non-leap year

Alternative form of jump through hoops.

(colloquial) To get lost; to scram.

present participle of leap through hoops

Alternative form of jump down someone's throat

simple past tense and past participle of look before one leaps

(cliché, idiomatic) (used imitatively) A cliché used to exaggerate an accomplishment or milestone.