call it quits en · VERB
Meanings
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To conclude; to quit or stop an activity, especially after applying oneself to it for a significant period of time.
The West's longest-serving foreign minister called it quits last week.
1992 May 11, “A One-Two Punch Rattles Germany”, in Time:One afternoon, after twenty minutes of desperate efforts to annihilate each other according to set rules that did not permit kicking, striking below the belt, nor hitting when one was down, Cheese-Face, panting for breath and reeling, offered to call it quits.
1909, Jack London, chapter 15, in Martin Eden:
- To declare debts resolved to one another.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| calls it quits | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| calling it quits | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| called it quits | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| called it quits | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (13)
pl kończyć (to conclude) · fi olla sujut (to declare debts resolved) · it essere pari (to declare debts resolved) · fi lopettaa (to conclude) · pl być kwita (to declare debts resolved) · fr être quitte (to declare debts resolved) · is segja þetta gott (to conclude) · fr démissionner (to conclude) · nl het hierbij laten (to conclude) · it tirare i remi in barca (to conclude) · ja ちゃらにする (to declare debts resolved) · fr arrêter (to conclude) · pl skończyć (to conclude)