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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