the jig is up
英语[编辑]
其他形式[编辑]
词源[编辑]
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。[1]
发音[编辑]
（澳洲）音频 （文檔）
短语[编辑]
the jig is up (简单过去时 the jig was up)
- (澳大利亞，新西蘭，美國，俗語) （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
- 1753, The Skipper:
- We knew then the jig was up, and it was no grin matter for us.
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
- 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:
- 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.
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
- 1920, Champ Clark, My Quarter Century of American Politics, Harper & brothers，頁號 96:
- 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.
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
- 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:
- The universe works in strange ways: just when you think the jig is up, you get a second chance.
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
近义词[编辑]
参考资料[编辑]
- ↑ Robert Hendrickson (1997) Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, New York: Facts on File