[Ads-l] the gig

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 'The end; the "ballgame"'
>
> MSNBC:
>
> "Romney won around forty per cent of Latino voters in Florida in 2012, I
> think, [and lost the state]; Donald Trump [is] polling among Latinos in
> Florida around thirteen per cent. So you think to yourself, 'That, that
> should be the gig,' right?"
>

Commentator was possibly grasping for "the jig is up" or its eggcornified
variant, "the gig is up."

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--bgz

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