call it quits

1. 1.

   stop doing what one is doing

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

   Synonymscall it a day

   Broaderdiscontinue

Questions about call it quits

What does call it quits mean?

call it quits means "stop doing what one is doing".

What is another word for call it quits?

Close synonyms include call it a day. 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 quits a common word?

call it quits 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.