Call It A Day (Verb)
Meaning
Stop doing what one is doing; "At midnight, the student decided to call it quits and closed his books".
Classification
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations.
Examples
- After working for 12 hours straight, the team decided to call it a day and head home.
- I've been trying to fix this bike for hours, I'm going to call it a day and take it to the professionals.
- The exhausted hikers decided to call it a day and set up camp for the night.
- The chef, realizing he'd forgotten a crucial ingredient, decided to call it a day and cancel the dinner party.
- The painter, his hands aching and his vision blurring, decided to call it a day and return to her studio in the morning.