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Definition of Call it a day
1. Verb. Stop doing what one is doing. "At midnight, the student decided to call it quits and closed his books"
Definition of Call it a day
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To retire. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To cease the activity for the day. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Call It A Day
Literary usage of Call it a day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the Rev. John Howe by John Howe, Edmund Calamy (1838)
"Or 'tis all one if you call it a day ; there is enough to distinguish it from
the day of grace. The Scripture- call such a calamitous season indifferently ..."
2. The Digital Work Force: Building Infotech Skills at the Speed of Innovation by Carol A. Meares (2000)
"In this environment, you either get the right worker who can do the job and keep
you ahead of the rest or you can call it a day."12 IT Employers Face ..."
3. The Redeemer's Tears Wept Over Lost Souls: Union Among Protestants by John Howe, William Urwick (1846)
"Or, 'tis all one if you call it a day ; there is enough to distinguish it from
the day of grace. The Scriptures call such a calamitous season indifferently ..."
4. A Commentary on the Psalms: From Primitive and Mediaeval Writers and from by John Mason Neale, Richard Frederick Littledale (1868)
"... for our three days may be only five or eix-and-twenty hours. If one half-hour
before sunset, we call it a day: if half an hour after ..."
5. The Christian Examiner (1855)
"To call it a day's work is in reality no farther from literal truth, than to call
it work at all; and it has doubtless been to uncultivated men in all ages ..."
6. The Theological and Literary Journal (1860)
"... to call it a day, which, in its largest sense, denotes a specific and brief
period. That he denies the true sense of these terms and phrases, ..."
7. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"A good place to call it a day. North from Lytton It's an easy and scenic 50
miles/85 km from Lytton to Cache Creek. You'll go through the small town of ..."
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