It’s easy to picture the situation: a politician who has been an outspoken supporter of China (insisting their government is entirely benign and all that military hardware is just for show) – is discovered to have been on the Chinese payroll. So, what do we say? ‘The jig is up!’ But where does that come from? And what is a jig? (Is it a gadget I can buy from Temu?) We’ve been saying ‘the jig is up’ since 1800.
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