the jig is up

英語

其他形式

• jig's up
• one's jig is up
• one's jig's up
• the jig's up

詞源

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。

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短語

the jig is up (簡單過去時 the jig was up)

1. (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，第 176 頁:

     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，第 96 頁:

     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，第 248 頁:

     The universe works in strange ways: just when you think the jig is up, you get a second chance.

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近義詞

• gotcha
• the game is up
• sussed