Meaning of call it quits | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To conclude; to quit or stop an activity, especially after applying oneself to it for a significant period of time.
2. To declare debts resolved to one another.

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Examples

“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.”

“The West's longest-serving foreign minister called it quits last⟳ week.”

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