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Call it quits   /kɔl ɪt kwɪts/   Listen
Call it quits

verb
1.
Stop doing what one is doing.  Synonym: call it a day.






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"Call it quits" Quotes from Famous Books



... gentlemen," said His Excellency, pinching me and reaching out a hand for Hartnoll, who evaded him, "it seems to me you deserve a thrashing apiece for yesterday and a guinea apiece for to-day. Will you take both, or shall we call it quits?" ...
— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... The man climbed the running-board and pushed his grime-stained hand into the car. "Call it quits, mister, and shake for luck. And now the little lady, if she ...
— The Kingdom Round the Corner - A Novel • Coningsby Dawson

... on this side the valley," he murmured as he loped along at my side. "I bagged three on 'em. You fetched one. Black Hoof is too big a chief to call it quits. He's back there leadin' the chase. So I 'low it'll ...
— A Virginia Scout • Hugh Pendexter

... just as well as I do that it is against the law to hit a man that wears glasses. We'll call it quits if you'll promise that in the days to come you'll let me hang around your hymeneal shack ...
— The Man on the Box • Harold MacGrath

... feller ez rode three horses to onct. Hevin' allez a taste for athletic sports, she left town with this feller, leavin' me and Jinny behind. I sent word to her, thet, if she would give Jinny to me, we'd call it quits. And she did." ...
— Tales of the Argonauts • Bret Harte



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