the jig is up
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jig曾指「活潑的舞蹈」,在伊麗莎白時代,還曾經是指「惡作劇」的俚語。該詞即派生自這個棄用俚語詞。[1]
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the jig is up (簡單過去時 the jig was up)
- (澳大利亞,新西蘭,美國,俗語) (當自己說時)我們被打了個措手不及,我們完蛋了,我們穿幫了;(當對他人說時)你們已經被拆穿了,你們完蛋了
- 1753, The Skipper:
- We knew then the jig was up, and it was no grin matter for us.
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- 1833, Seba Smith (as Jack Downing), The life and writings of Major Jack Downing, of Downingville, away down East in the State of Maine, Lilly; Wait; Colman & Holden,頁號 176:
- When I first told 'em how the jig was up with us, that the British were going to have the land, without any fighting about it, I never see fellows so mad before in my life, unless it was Major Eaton at Washington when he sot out to flog Mr. Ingham.
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- 1920, Champ Clark, My Quarter Century of American Politics, Harper & brothers,頁號 96:
- After I had returned home in the spring of 1893 from Washington, where I saw so many gray-haired men who had held high elective office begging for the crumbs from Cleveland's table, I gave my wife an account of what I observed, and told her that when the jig was up for me I would hasten back to Missouri to begin the practice of law once more and be a man among men.
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- 2007, Mary Newport, in Jerry Newport and Mary Newport, Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN,頁號 248:
- The universe works in strange ways: just when you think the jig is up, you get a second chance.
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- ↑ Robert Hendrickson (1997) Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, New York: Facts on File