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quits
[ kwits ]
adjective
- on equal terms by repayment or retaliation.
quits
/ kwɪts /
adjective
- on an equal footing; even
now we are quits
- call it quitsto agree to end a dispute, contest, etc, agreeing that honours are even
interjection
- an exclamation indicating willingness to give up
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Idioms and Phrases
Idioms
- call it quits,
- to end one's activity, especially temporarily:
At 10 o'clock I decided to call it quits for the day.
- to abandon an effort.
- cry quits, to agree to end competition and consider both sides equal:
It became too dark to continue play and they decided to cry quits.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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