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The jig is a dance that was performed for an audience at the end of all plays in Elizabethan times until Shakespeare did away with it in the early 1600's. The jig would occur when all the complexities of the plot had been revealed; therefore, "the jig is up" means that everything that was hidden is now known.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoSir, the phrase originated in 1874 when Derek Bush held up a convenience store for "the jig", which was a magazine promoting adult toys. After the incident, local residents would say "the jig is up" after something bad would happen to them.
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∙ 9y ago"The jig is up" is a phrase that refers to a person being found out or exposed. The phrase has it's origin in the racist South because it refers to the lynching of slaves and African Americans.
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jig
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Types of jigs?
· Plate jigs or channel jigs · Angle plate jig · Box jig · Leaf or latch jig · Sandwich jig · Trunnion jig · Template jig · Universal jig
