Call it quits
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To conclude; to quit or stop an activity, especially after applying oneself to it for a significant period of 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."
- 2 stop doing what one is doing wordnet
- 3 To declare debts resolved to one another.
Example
More 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."