one's jig is up
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edit- (idiomatic) Alternative form of the jig is up [for one].
- 1836, Horatio Hastings Weld, "The Martyr to Science", in Corrected Proofs, Russell, Shattuck & Co., page 74,
- P.S. C'est en fait—my jig is up! While under the barber's hands this morning, a boy posted up in the shop the programme of a course of Phrenological Lectures!
- 1920, Ethel and James Dorrance, Glory Rides the Range, The Macaulay Company, page 272,
- "You tell the lie!" she accused. "And you'd better quit, for your jig is up. I've got you right. […]"
- 2006, Derrick Parker and Matt Diehl, Notorious C.O.P.: the inside story of the Tupac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay investigations from the NYPD's first "hip-hop cop", St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 102,
- But I'd convinced a witness to come in, […] Sure enough, when we brought Marshall in for the lineup, she picked him right away. ¶ Marshall was naturally upset that his jig was up, […]
- 1836, Horatio Hastings Weld, "The Martyr to Science", in Corrected Proofs, Russell, Shattuck & Co., page 74,