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the jig is up

When one's plans, schemes, distractions, falsifications, feints, sleight of hand's, and 'dirty tricks' fail, one must admit.
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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.

Submitted by WerterBuch on July 26, 2015

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the jig is upAn 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.".
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