Too good for a counter jumper like that.

The Counter Jumper (1922)

The Counter Jumper is a 1922 film directed by Larry Semon and featuring Oliver Hardy.

The crowds were still coming, but the money just didn't seem to be there any more; everything seemed to be so expensive... And now they were owned by a cheesemonger, for heaven's sake, some grubby counter jumper who'd probably want to bring in fancy ideas.

And it was a mistake to bring in that counter-jumper, Trueman.

Or did being rebuffed at by a colonial counter-jumper aggravate him that much?

Which colonial counter-jumper am I thinking about?

Mr. Brown will tell our soda-jerker or counter-jumper exactly how to elevate himself by mental machinery.

He is a neurasthenic counter-jumper.

No, sir, I'm a democrat, and I still don't believe that Sunday could convert one average navvy or counter-jumper.

And then suddenly he said: "I remember Mr. Gordon used to call me a gipsy counter-jumper when I was in his form."

Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.

--but just a plain hired man, another counter-jumper in the Marked-down Classics Goods Department, with students for bored customers, and as subject to being hired and fired as any janitor.

Mulligan's finances appear to be at least partially dependent on the generosity of a wealthy, pious aunt; he is also mentioned as having a father who was a "counter-jumper" (i.e. sales clerk), a mother, and a brother.

We've still got the plate glass windows, though all we can see out of 'em is the smoke and the old Johnson house, which is a counter-jumper's boardinghouse now, while you've got a view, and you cut it all up into little panes.

Nonetheless, Hoopdriver is treated sympathetically: "But if you see how a mere counter-jumper, a cad on castors, and a fool to boot, may come to feel the little insufficiencies of life, and if he has to any extent won your sympathies, my end is attained."