Elongated Jig

[00:05] Oh, we doing under Google rules that was the play of super excited told us we had to
[00:17] be signed up for it. In the end, it's going to be better and more true than Google can
[00:26] give you. What do we got on the the jig is up. I don't know what I don't know what a jig
[00:38] is, and I don't know why it's up. So it's definitely jig and not gig, right? I'm
[00:45] pretty sure it's jig. Okay, so jig is a little dance, right? Yeah, that's what I
[00:49] thought. Yeah. And the idea is that I mean, the song is over parties. Yeah, yeah, the
[00:56] party's over. But I just didn't. So I submitted this one. I guess Harper, you
[01:01] had it on your list. I did very much so. I guess it just seems like an odd thing to
[01:05] me to mean, because I guess the meaning of it to me is that the the charade that
[01:12] you've been putting on is over. Yes, we figured it out. Right. And to have it
[01:20] mean, like the end of the song is in a short song, apparently at that. Yeah, I
[01:28] just thought it was strange. And so I just wondered when it got applied, I guess
[01:31] at some level, I feel like the jig has been around for a long time. Well, jig is
[01:36] like Irish. It's like Irish Celtic thing. Yeah, I think many, many years. I don't
[01:43] think it refers to any particular dance like a particular dance. It's just a word
[01:48] for I think it's like a short style of dance. Okay. Okay, I'll take maybe not. I
[01:53] don't know. I just imagined it was a, you know, synonym for a short dance. I
[01:59] associate it with with, yeah, an Irish jig. Yeah, I guess most often I've heard it in
[02:07] tandem with the modifier Irish. Like, are the, do the river dancers, is that a jig?
[02:15] Or is that a? I feel like they go longer than a jig. That's a whole
[02:20] different genre of dance. Elongated jig, which was also the name of an
[02:26] in high school. The other thing that I possibly thought this could be is
[02:34] something in relationship to sailing. Is a jig a thing on? Like, so I dabble in
[02:42] woodworking a little bit briefly and then haven't been able to get back to it.
[02:47] But you can make jigs for your shop, which are things like if you're gonna
[02:51] make the same cut over and over again, you make a jig that allows you to do it.
[02:55] And so is there any way that like that's related? Or is there like a jig on a, I
[03:02] guess you rig a sail. You don't jig it. Yeah, and there's a jib. There's jib. Okay.
[03:09] And there's rig. I'm conflating those in my mind. Yeah. That, yeah. Harper, you asked at the
[03:16] very beginning, is it the gig is up. And now that you say that, I think that's
[03:20] how I've always thought of it. Whether I've said jig or not, I always think of
[03:25] it as the gig. So gig is like the, you know, I've got a small thing I've
[03:29] gathered together to make money or whatever. It's a job. Yeah, it's a job. It's
[03:34] it's, you know, and and that's ended. Not necessarily on my terms, you know. I'm
[03:42] getting thrown off of, you know, out of the area that I was doing my job or
[03:47] what, you know, like, like almost like panhandling or doing some sort of
[03:51] street show. This is my gig and now it's up. It's done. It's cut off early, is how
[03:57] I've thought of it now that I'm thinking about it. So, is it jig is up or is it gig is up?
[04:04] I think it's jig is up, but I'm not really sure. I'm like 95% sure it's jig is up. Okay.
[04:11] All right. I like it. All right. But I also call a gif a gif and apparently it
[04:15] should be called a gif. It's a gif. I know it should be called a
[04:19] gif and I still call it a gif all the time. Isn't there also? So now that you
[04:26] got me thinking about what are working in tinkering, can you show some jig or
[04:30] something like to mess with something like to reorganize in small ways? Yeah,
[04:35] you can jigger and you could rejigger. Yeah, you definitely do that. Yeah. So,
[04:43] so if you if you could jigger something, the thing that you were jiggering is a
[04:48] jig and that's now up. It's the jigger. You can also get jiggy with it. You can
[04:55] definitely get jiggy with it. And why is it up? Why is it up and not down? Yeah,
[05:00] why? And or over the jig is over. The jig is up. Yeah. That makes it seem to me
[05:06] like that. That's a very like Sam Spade type thing. That's like a yeah.
[05:12] The jig is up. I think in the 1920s saying. The jig is up. I mean,
[05:19] it does have like a sort of nice theatrical, you know, sort of feel to it as in like,
[05:25] you know, the curtain is up on your Oh, is what are they? Are there things
[05:30] connected to the curtain that are called jigs? Those are jibs probably as well.
[05:34] Hmm. I don't know. It is a sale. Jib is like, yeah. Yeah. Are there things
[05:39] connected to curtains? I feel like because you like the cut of somebody's jib. It's
[05:43] there. I mean, I think you can have ropes to curtain, you know, in the theater. They
[05:47] may have a different word for that, but I would be speculating wildly to rename it
[05:51] a jig. But you could imagine that the pulley thing is the jig to to like pull it
[05:56] up. I don't know. I don't know. I feel like the sailors are super famous for
[06:00] making up weird names for stuff that we already have, but not so much theater
[06:03] people. Okay, but what about what about this, though? I do like this idea. The
[06:08] curtain comes up and all of the things that you've been saying you were gonna
[06:14] do now the reality is it's sort of like face the music, right? The jig is up
[06:21] and now you've got to just be real and you've got to do your thing. You've got
[06:25] to you've got to I don't know. I kind of like that. Yeah, I don't know. I'm
[06:30] making shit up right now, but that's what we do on this show. I think that's
[06:34] our top alternative to just the song is over. What do we think people started
[06:41] using this to mean the way that we use it today? Or at all for anything. Do we
[06:52] think it's like 20s like detective? Yeah, it's a film noir. I mean that's
[07:00] definitely what I always think of. Yeah, me too. But you know it's also just like a
[07:04] weird phrase which makes me think you could easily be British. And you know if
[07:11] a jig is an Irish thing. Yeah, let's make it Irish in the 1700s.
[07:19] That's what I'm gonna go with. Alright, I'll be patriotic and say it's American.
[07:25] American. In the 1920s. In the 20s to 40s something like that. Alright, Harper you got
[07:32] anything? I go in between. Honestly, I definitely would have said it's like you
[07:38] know American film noirs. You know how it's popularized here. But yeah, I don't know. It must
[07:46] have come from somewhere though. So yeah, screw it. Europe 1700s. I like it.
[07:53] Jig is an old term for a lively dance and in the Elizabethan era the word
[08:00] also became slang for a practical joke or a trick. This idiom derives from the
[08:06] obsolete slang word. Comes from Irish and Scottish form of dancing known as the
[08:12] jig. According to this, dancing a jig usually occurs when someone is happy or
[08:18] trying to attract attention from a crowd. Eventually, jig became the final
[08:24] sequence in the Baroque dance. So the meaning of jig is up as the dance is
[08:29] over. Other language experts believe the words current use extends back to 1590
[08:37] where it refers to discovering the outcome of a practical joke. So if the
[08:42] jig is up it means that someone exposes your trick or prank. 1590 is where that...
[08:51] 1590, okay. So some side I've never heard of called CBC News which I'm very
[09:00] skeptical of. But the first trick, they have the first chord of use of the jig
[09:05] is over appeared in 1777. But they believe that the exact origin is unknown but it
[09:16] may have to do with the removal of a fishing line, a jig from water. I've never
[09:23] heard of a fishing line referred to as a jig but they also have some
[09:28] ambiguation between jig and gig. Like they seem to think that there was... both have
[09:34] been used. So like I said, I'm skeptical of this site. Yeah, so I'm
[09:38] reading VisualThesaurus.com. Whoa, cool. It's not just pictures? Speakers today are
[09:48] far more likely to be acquainted with the gig is up than the jig is up.
[09:53] Gig temporary work and jig 16th century dance. It's not a far stretch to arrive at
[10:01] the correct meaning with either version of the phrase or to conclude that a gig
[10:05] is a form that makes the most sense especially if you don't know a jig from
[10:10] a gevotier. Gevot. Gevat. Gevat. I like to... you don't like how I try to make it
[10:18] French? That was nice. I guess their argument is that jig was the original but
[10:23] gig is now in use and it makes sense. Is VisualThesaurus. His argument. It was
[10:33] originally jig and it's become gig and it's okay. Okay, apparently jig is also a
[10:38] racial slur. I should have known. Black man according to 1950 Blesh all played
[10:48] ragtime. Ragtime piano was called jig piano and the syncopated beats like
[10:54] Scott Joplin's were called jig bands. This term taken from jig dances even came to
[11:00] later to be a designation for the nigger himself. This is from Random House
[11:05] historical dictionary of American slang. The black sheriff played by Cleveland
[11:10] Little in the Mel Brooks movie Blaze and Saddles did a little word play
[11:14] with the two unrelated phrases in the line. The jig is up and gone. Okay, the
[11:21] word jig has had the meaning of trick or joke back to 16th century according to
[11:31] Oxford English Dictionary defining as piece of sport jesting manner or a trifle
[11:39] and for the jig is up suggests that the joke is over. Yeah, that seems to be the
[11:47] most common thing that I'm seeing across. Yeah, and we definitely have a
[11:52] documented 1777 use of it. So that seems to be firm for written entry. Yeah, that
[12:02] seems and then and then it just got transferred into gig. So I mean, once
[12:08] again, let's say we nailed it. I just I feel like we're on a roll boys. Yeah,
[12:13] I learned the term or an M. Did you do you guys know what an or an M is? No,
[12:17] what's an or an M is a phrase that two phrases, I guess, or more that sound the
[12:25] same but mean different things like ice cream and ice cream. Those are
[12:31] foreign. Yeah, like like homophones, but for whole words. Exactly. Yeah, but
[12:37] for phrases. Yeah. Shout out, Jill. Shout out, Jill.