英语词汇the jig is up的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the jig is up
词源	the jig is up. The expression suggests that the dance is over, and that the time has come to pay the fiddler. However, its deri- vation is more complicated. Jig is a very old term for a lively dance, but in Elizabethan times the word became slang for a practical joke or a trick. The jig is up—meaning your trick or game is finished, has been exposed, we’re onto you now—de- rives from this obsolete slang word, not the jig that is still a gay and lively dance. See the game is up.
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