call it a day

1. 1.

   stop doing what one is doing

   “At midnight, the student decided to call it quits and closed his books”

   Synonymscall it quits

   Broaderdiscontinue

Questions about call it a day

What does call it a day mean?

call it a day means "stop doing what one is doing".

What is another word for call it a day?

Close synonyms include call it quits. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is call it a day a common word?

call it a day is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.