quit : Idioms & Phrases
Banana quit
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noun any of several honeycreepers
WordNet
(Zoöl.) , a small bird of tropical America, of the genusCerthiola , allied to the creepers.
Webster 1913
call it quits
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verb stop doing what one is doing
call it a day.
- At midnight, the student decided to call it quits and closed his books
WordNet
Crass quit
(Zoöl.) , o ne of several tropical American finches of the genusEuetheia . The males have most of the head and chest black and often marked with yellow.
Webster 1913
To cry quits
- to propose, or declare, the abandonment of a contest.
Webster 1913
To quit cost
- to pay; to reimburse.
Webster 1913
To quit scores
- to make even; to clear mutually from demands.
- to settle or balance accounts; to render an equivalent; to make compensation.
Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it? South.
