| 单词 | the jig is up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe jig is up 5. A piece of sport, a joke; a jesting matter, a trifle; a sportive trick or cheat. the jig is up (or the jig is over) = ‘the game is up’, it is all over. Now dialect or slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > mischievous or practical joking > [noun] > instance of jest1578 jig1592 wilec1600 waggery1604 pleasance1668 quiz1795 practical joke1804 skite1804 skit1815 galliardise1842 leg-pull1893 rannygazoo1896 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > a trick, prank, hoax pratOE mowa1393 pageant?c1430 jimp?1572 prank1576 jest1578 jig1592 frump1593 trick1605 bilk1664 fun1699 plisky1706 humbug1750 hum1751 practical joke1751 marlock1763 quiz1795 practical joke1804 skite1804 hoax1808 skit1815 wrinkle1817 rusty1835 funny business1838 string1851 stringer1851 cod1862 mank1865 spoof1889 leg-pull1893 rannygazoo1896 shenanigan1926 gotcha1967 to throw a fastball1968 wind-up1984 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > the end [phrase] > at an end at an upshot1653 all over1664 the jig is over1777 the jig is up1800 all up1825 the last of pea-time1834 (all) washed up1923 the party is over1931 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. L2 v Let not your shops bee infected with any such goose gyblets or stinking garbadge, as the Iygs of newsmongers. a1633 Visct. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 66 As with a Jigg of State might catch them naked. 1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 27 When the Major now perceived the Jig, and how Kitchinman had fooled him, he could have pulled the Hair off his Head. 1688 J. Bunyan Good News for Vilest of Men 131 By jiggs, and tricks, and quirks, which he helpeth them to. 1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Jig,..an arch merry Trick. 1777 Maryland Jrnl. 17 June Mr. John Miller came in and said, ‘The jig is over with us.’ 1800 Aurora (Philadelphia) 17 Dec. As the Baltimore paper says, ‘The Jigg's up, Paddy.’ 1834 W. A. Carruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. II. 210 I began to think the jig was up with me, for she began to look serious. 1848 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Sketches Trav. 14 (Farmer) I know'd the jig was up. 1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges iv. 210 Her jigs, and her junketings, and her tears. 1894 W. D. Howells in Harper's Mag. Feb. 380 The die is cast, the jig is up, the fat's in the fire, the milk's spilt. 1923 E. Wallace Missing Million xii. 100 It was almost like the last spiteful act of a man who knew the jig was up. 1961 P. G. Wodehouse Service with Smile ix. 152 You're in the soup, Miss Briggs. The gaff has been blown, and the jig is up. 1965 New Yorker 18 Sept. 56 O.K., Frankie, the jig's up! 1974 Nature 15 Feb. 420/3 The weight of opinion seems to be that the jig is up for the map's supporters. < as lemmas |
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