“The gig is …. You are under arrest for embezzlement. We can prove that you have been stealing from your employer. Granted, you have a complex way of going about it but it didn’t fool us,” Detective Burns told Mr. Hammond.
“The gig is up. You are under arrest for embezzlement. We can prove that you have been stealing from your employer. Granted, you have a complex way of going about it but it didn’t fool us,” Detective Burns told Mr. Hammond.
Correct answer: (d) up
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Hi
“The jig is up” is a well-known expression. Can we assume that ‘gig’ in this test is supposed to be pronounced the same as the word ‘jig’? (Or is ‘gig’ a typo?)
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The gig is up is quite new to me in usage, but could be perceivably used in the context of general events. However gig is commonly used in specific reference to a concert.
The word ‘gig’ is also used in a couple of other ways – in reference to a ‘gigabyte’, for example. But I had never seen the idiom ‘the jig is up’ written with the word ‘gig’. Thus my question to the author of the test sentence. It seems to me that ‘gig’ is a typo in this test.
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English Language Tests, Intermediate level