Idioms

call it a day

This page is about the idiom call it a day

INFORMAL

Meaning

If you call it a day, you stop doing something that's usually related to work.

For example

  • We couldn't do any more work because of the rain, so we called it a day and went home.

  • After running a hotel for nearly thirty years, we decided to call it a day and do something else.

Quick Quiz

We decided to call it a day because

a. we had so much to do

b. we were short of time

c. it was getting late
a) we had so much to do b) we were short of time c) it was getting late

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