[Ads-l] the gig

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> "the jig is up" or its eggcornified variant, "the gig is up."
>

Or its PC'ed version.

Youneverknow.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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