game is up

[game is up] or {slang} [jig is up]

The secret or plan won't work; we are caught or discovered.

* /The game is up; the teacher knows who took her keys./

* /The jig's up; the principal knows the boys have been smoking in the basement./

Compare: FAT IS IN THE FIRE.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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