All is over.
1777. Mr. John Miller came in and said, “The jig is over with us.”… Good news to hear the Tories crying out, “The jig is over.”—Maryland Journal, June 17.
1800. As the Baltimore paper says, “The Jigg’s up, Paddy.”… The Baltimore American humourously observes, that the Federal Jigg is up.—The Aurora, Phila., Dec. 17.
1848. I know’d the jig was up, and I was like the boy what the calf run over—I didn’t have a word to say.—W. T. Thompson, ‘Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel,’ p. 14 (Farmer).
1848. And I’m satisfied the jig is up with us, and it’s no use in my trying any longer; and Mr. Buchanan’s speech was all throwed away, too.—Seba Smith (‘Major Downing’), ‘My Thirty Years Out of the Senate,’ p. 310.
1866. If one of us happens to speak a word, the jig is up with us.—The same, ‘’Way Down East,’ p. 206.
1869. Our homes are desolate, our friends are dead. Behold, the jig is up—let us die. And that same day went they forth and laid them down and died.—Mark Twain, ‘The Innocents Abroad,’ chap. xl.
