An expression used to mean "We have been caught out and have no defence", or if spoken to a person who's just been found out as the perpetrator of an offense, it means "You've been discovered.".
When one's plans, schemes, distractions, falsifications, feints, sleight of hand's, and 'dirty tricks' fail, one must admit.
Listen Garibaldi, everything we have attempted to pull the wool over their corporate eyes, has come to naught, so lets wake up and admit: the jig is up.
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la plantilla está arriba
le gabarit est en place
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