We’ve jumped over the last hoop

Hoops and hurdles seem to confound folks, given the many malaphors posted involving these words.  This one was uttered by a film producer exclaiming that the last legal step was completed in order to distribute a film.  It is a nice congruent conflation of “jumping through hoops” and “clearing a hurdle”, both meaning to overcome obstacles to achieve a goal.  This one is similar to “we still have a lot of hurdles to jump through (https://malaphors.com/2013/08/05/we-still-have-a-lot-of-hurdles-to-jump-through/) and “we have so many hurdles to cross” (https://malaphors.com/2014/02/15/we-have-so-many-hurdles-to-cross/)  And who can forget “he bent over hoops for me” (https://malaphors.com/2016/02/19/he-bent-over-hoops-for-me/).   By the way, the speaker was Tom W. Metz III, who is currently producing his first full length picture, 30 Nights!  Check it out @30NightsMovie.  A big thanks to Lou Pugliese for hearing this one and sharing it.