英语词汇“the game is up”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. the game is up: the game has finished, usually badly; (in extended use) a good outcome is now no longer possible. Now used esp. to indicate that a plan, esp. one involving deception or concealment, has been uncovered.

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1599 ‘T. Cutwode’ Caltha Poetarum sig. E7 The scantlin won, the winners must cry whup, The goale is got, and now the game is vp.

1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xlii. 288 Heere (no doubt) the game is vp for Saint Augustine. Fire after this life, and yet not eternall: therefore of Purgatory, no question.

1679 T. Shadwell True Widow ii. 25 The Game were up betwixt us, and there were no more to do but to pay the stakes, and then to something else.

1717 C. Bullock Woman is Riddle ii. 18 Before the game's up, I have a Bisk in my sleeve, an appeal to the House of Peers.

1792 T. Holcroft Road to Ruin iii. 51 Must not lose her; the game's up if I do!

1814 Prince William Let. 18 Feb. in P. Ziegler King William IV (1971) ix. 115 The game is up with Bonaparte and I shall be in at the kill.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 558 Godwine might well think the game was up.

1904 F. Rolfe Hadrian VII Prooimion 5 Any popular feeling must sooner or later touch the Army, and if the soldiers cannot be depended upon to shoot, the game of absolutism is up.

1953 J. Wain Hurry on Down (1960) 90 Now that for one of them the game was up, that bond parted easily and at once.

1989 Judy 2 Dec. 25 Oh no!.. She knows who I am. If she sees me, the game's up!

2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 May 11/2 He conjures up the father of Colin Wilson's girlfriend bursting into the young fornicator's flat brandishing a horsewhip and shouting, ‘Aha, Wilson, the game is up!’

单词	the game is up
释义	> as lemmas the game is up a. the game is up: the game has finished, usually badly; (in extended use) a good outcome is now no longer possible. Now used esp. to indicate that a plan, esp. one involving deception or concealment, has been uncovered. ΚΠ 1599 ‘T. Cutwode’ Caltha Poetarum sig. E7 The scantlin won, the winners must cry whup, The goale is got, and now the game is vp. 1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xlii. 288 Heere (no doubt) the game is vp for Saint Augustine. Fire after this life, and yet not eternall: therefore of Purgatory, no question. 1679 T. Shadwell True Widow ii. 25 The Game were up betwixt us, and there were no more to do but to pay the stakes, and then to something else. 1717 C. Bullock Woman is Riddle ii. 18 Before the game's up, I have a Bisk in my sleeve, an appeal to the House of Peers. 1792 T. Holcroft Road to Ruin iii. 51 Must not lose her; the game's up if I do! 1814 Prince William Let. 18 Feb. in P. Ziegler King William IV (1971) ix. 115 The game is up with Bonaparte and I shall be in at the kill. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 558 Godwine might well think the game was up. 1904 F. Rolfe Hadrian VII Prooimion 5 Any popular feeling must sooner or later touch the Army, and if the soldiers cannot be depended upon to shoot, the game of absolutism is up. 1953 J. Wain Hurry on Down (1960) 90 Now that for one of them the game was up, that bond parted easily and at once. 1989 Judy 2 Dec. 25 Oh no!.. She knows who I am. If she sees me, the game's up! 2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 May 11/2 He conjures up the father of Colin Wilson's girlfriend bursting into the young fornicator's flat brandishing a horsewhip and shouting, ‘Aha, Wilson, the game is up!’ extracted from gamen. < as lemmas
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