"the jig is up" meaning in All languages combined

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "jig曾指“活泼的舞蹈”，在伊丽莎白时代，还曾经是指“恶作剧”的俚语。该词即派生自这个弃用俚语词。",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the jig was up",
      "raw_tags": [
        "简单过去时"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英语",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "新西蘭英語",
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        },
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          "name": "澳大利亞英語",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "美國英語",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "英語俗語",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1753, The Skipper:",
          "text": "We knew then the jig was up, and it was no grin matter for us."
        },
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, Champ Clark, My Quarter Century of American Politics, Harper & brothers，頁號 96:",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "The universe works in strange ways: just when you think the jig is up, you get a second chance."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "（当自己说时）我们被打了个措手不及，我们完蛋了，我们穿帮了；（当对他人说时）你们已经被拆穿了，你们完蛋了"
      ],
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        "澳大利亞",
        "新西蘭",
        "美國"
      ],
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      ]
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "jig's up"
    },
    {
      "word": "one's jig is up"
    },
    {
      "word": "one's jig's up"
    },
    {
      "word": "the jig's up"
    },
    {
      "word": "gotcha"
    },
    {
      "word": "the game is up"
    },
    {
      "word": "sussed"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "idiomatic"
  ],
  "word": "the jig is up"
}

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  "categories": [
    "有1個詞條的頁面",
    "英語句子",
    "英語短語",
    "英語詞元"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "jig曾指“活泼的舞蹈”，在伊丽莎白时代，还曾经是指“恶作剧”的俚语。该词即派生自这个弃用俚语词。",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the jig was up",
      "raw_tags": [
        "简单过去时"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英语",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
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    {
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        "新西蘭英語",
        "澳大利亞英語",
        "美國英語",
        "英語俗語"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1753, The Skipper:",
          "text": "We knew then the jig was up, and it was no grin matter for us."
        },
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, Champ Clark, My Quarter Century of American Politics, Harper & brothers，頁號 96:",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "The universe works in strange ways: just when you think the jig is up, you get a second chance."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "（当自己说时）我们被打了个措手不及，我们完蛋了，我们穿帮了；（当对他人说时）你们已经被拆穿了，你们完蛋了"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "澳大利亞",
        "新西蘭",
        "美國"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "jig's up"
    },
    {
      "word": "one's jig is up"
    },
    {
      "word": "one's jig's up"
    },
    {
      "word": "the jig's up"
    },
    {
      "word": "gotcha"
    },
    {
      "word": "the game is up"
    },
    {
      "word": "sussed"
    }
  ],
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    "idiomatic"
  ],
  "word": "the jig is up"
}