the jig is up | Idiomator

Meaning: (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".1753,The Skipper:We knew thenthe jig was up, and it was no grin matter for us.1833,Seba Smith(asJack Downing),The life and writings of Major Jack Downing, of Downingville, away down East in the State of Maine, Lilly; Wait; Colman & Holden, page176:When I first told 'em howthe jig was upwith 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.1920,Champ Clark,My Quarter Century of American Politics, Harper & brothers, page96: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 whenthe jig was upfor me I would hasten back to Missouri to begin the practice of law once more and be a man among men.2007, Mary Newport,inJerry Newport and Mary Newport,Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN, page248:The universe works in strange ways: just when you thinkthe jig is up, you get a second chance.

Examples:

EN: Well, you can cool off now Hazel as the jig is up.
ES: Basta ya de paripés, Hazel. No hay nada que hacer.
EN: She says that if she doesn't hear from you, the jig is up!
ES: Dice que si no da señales, soltará la bomba.
EN: I may be down, but the jig is up.
ES: Puede que haya caído, pero a vosotrtos se os caerá el pelo.
EN: As you say in America, the jig is up for our Captain Evans. No!
ES: Hemos lanzado la red para el Capitán Evans.
EN: Fenton, the jig is up.
ES: -Fenton, se terminó el juego.
EN: Ethel, come on, the jig is up. Lucy!
ES: Termino el baile
EN: - That we are fakes and the jig is up.
ES: - Que somos farsantes y se acabó el baile.
EN: Professor, the jig is up.
ES: Profesor, esto se acabó.
EN: - I think for Mr. Smart the jig is up. - ( clicks )
ES: Creo que al señor Smart se le acabó el cuento.
EN: Your agency's had quite a run for its money, but now the jig is up.
ES: Su agencia tuvo una buena racha con su dinero pero ahora se les acabó el cuento.
EN: I said the jig is up.
ES: Dije que se les acabó el cuento.
EN: Come on, the jig is up.
ES: Bueno, nos vamos a bailar.
EN: You have to go a little faster, or the jig is up.
ES: Tienes que ir más rápido, de lo contrario descubrirán el truco.
EN: Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar! All right, the jig is up.
ES: Muy bien, se acabó la fiesta.
EN: Looks like the jig is up.
ES: - Nos descubrió.

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