Anne Lamott

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

American Author

Jodi Picoult

I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I have great, well-adjusted kids. Sometimes my husband and I look at each other and do a little jig in the kitchen. This is the best life.

Terry Bradshaw

I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.

American Athlete

Chris Bosh

My dad used to play every other weekend with me when I was young. I started getting better, but he could always beat me. Then one day, he realized the jig was up. And he stopped playing me just before I could beat him.

Tom Stoppard

Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else.

English Dramatist

Bruce Greenwood

Did I get jiggy with Will? I would have to say no! Did I have fun with Will? I would have to say yeah! But you know, I did not jig with the man, if you know what I'm saying!

Canadian Actor

Leonard Cohen

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

Canadian Singer

William Allingham

She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

Irish Poet

Christopher Marlowe

Michelle Wolf

American Comedian

Jig refers to upbeat traditional dances, often with Celtic origins.

Cultural Dance

Jigs are danced to specific time signatures, usually in 6/8.

Music Dependent

When fishing, jigging means moving the lure up and down to attract fish.

Fishing Technique

In fishing communities, 'jig' is common lingo and can show familiarity with the sport.

Sportsman's Lingo

A jig in manufacturing is a guide that ensures precise workmanship.

Workshop Tool

Jigs help to repeat the same process safely and effectively.

Repetition and Safety

'The jig is up' signals that a deception or scheme has been discovered.

Exposed Scheme

The phrase 'the jig is up' is a bit dated but still understood as an idiom.

Historic Phrase

To jig means to dance in a light-hearted and spirited way.

Joyful Moves

Jig as a verb in fishing describes imitative movements to resemble prey.

Mimicking Motion

 It takes about two hours to assemble one module with semi-skilled labor, and by developing tooling and jigs and rigs, we were able to actually build these standardized parts within this ecosystem of artisanal welders with the precision of one millimeter --

What a scrapyard in...

 It becomes kite-shaped. But give a child a triangle, he can't do a thing to it. Why use triangles? Because triangles are the only rigid structures. We can't make a bridge with squares because the train would come, it would start doing a jig.

Turning trash into toys...

 Diamondback squid had a light attached to it a squid jig of the type that longline fishermen use and I think it was this light that brought the Giant in now what you're seeing is the intensified cameras view under red light

How we found the giant...

 a dig jig is where, for a milestone anniversary or a birthday, you gather all your friends and family together and you dance on where you're going to be buried. And we got a lot of attention when we did it.

Shea Hembrey: How I...

 a one-meter long diamondback squid had a light attached to it, a squid jig of the type that longline fishermen use, and I think it was this light that brought the giant in. Now, what you're seeing

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Adam Nicolson: The King...

 It was in that moment and in that venue that the jig was up. I realized that as sharp as I believed I was, I didn't even know who I was or why I acted the way that I acted.

How I unlearned...

 like a lifejacket as they Bob across the surface that's a good start the one jig is swept away

Best of South American...

 life jacket as they bob across the surface that's a good start the one jig is swept away