Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (idiomaattinen) one's jig is up
- the jig's up
- one's jig's up
- jig's up
- the gig is up
Synonyymit
Käännöksiä ei löytynyt valitulle kohdekielelle.
Määritelmät
Fraasi
- (Australia, New Zealand, US, idiomatic) An expression used to mean "We have been caught out and have no defense", or if spoken to a person who has just been found out as the perpetrator of an offense, where it means "You've been discovered".
Yritit hakea fraasilla, joka sisältää useita sanoja. Parempien hakutulosten saamiseksi kokeile hakea sanoja erikseen: the, jig, is, up
Samankaltaisia sanoja
Esimerkit
- We knew then the jig was up, and it was no grin matter for us.
- 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.
- 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.
- The universe works in strange ways: just when you think the jig is up, you get a second chance.