verb
stop doing what one is doing
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At midnight, the student decided to call it quits and closed his books
• Syn: ↑call it quits
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
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phrasal : to stop at least for the present whatever one has been doing
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call it a day
To announce a decision to cease
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Main Entry: ↑day
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to decide that you have finished doing something
Main entry: call
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Isee day
II
end a period of activity, esp. resting content that enough has been done
we were prepared to do another long march before calling it a day
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Main Entry: ↑day
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call it a ˈday idiom
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After forty years in politics I think it's time for me to call it a day
(= to retire).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.