call it quits

[call it quits] {v. phr.}, {informal}

1. To decide to stop what you are doing; quit.

* /When Tom had painted half the garage, he called it quits./

2. To agree that each side in a fight is satisfied; stop fighting because a wrong has been paid back; say things are even.

* /Pete called Tom a bad name, and they fought till Tom gave Pete a bloody nose; then they called it quits./

3. To cultivate a habit no longer.

* /"Yes, I called it quits with cigarettes three years ago."/

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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