OXFORD 9000
📚 phrase • entry_id 44482

the jig is up

Meanings (ES + gloss)
la fiesta se acabó • se acabó el embuste • se descubrió el pastel • se destapó la olla • se terminó el juego
An expression used to mean "We have been caught out and have no defense", or if spoken to a person who has just been found out as the perpetrator of an offense, where it means "You've been discovered".
We knew then the jig was up, and it was no grin matter for us.
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…
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