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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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Word History and Origins
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Idioms and Phrases
- 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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Example Sentences
Following the release of Nine Types of Light, TV on the Radio thought long and hard about calling it quits.
I finish a decent game, type my initials, and decide to call it quits.
Rogozin also announced that Russia will call it quits with the International Space Station in 2020.
Eventually Megan quits her job to pursue acting, and this physical rift mirrors a widening emotional gap between the couple.
So she quits, and takes shelter in the northern Scotland woods, hoping to be left alone.
The wretched young man persistently exercises his right of crying "Banco," and so practically going double or quits each time.
So when the bunch got out quite a ways, I quits the camp an' swings round in a wide circle—an' sure enough they'd left their mark.
From that moment the house of Orleans was obliged to play double or quits: the event gave them the game.
The bear of the northern seas lives upon fish; he never quits the sea coasts, and even often inhabits the floating islands of ice.
Who is it that improves men an' makes thim more ladylike, an' thin quits thim, but th' ladies?
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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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