Hi everyone, this is Red from Fujian, China, and you're listening to Everybody ESL.
Welcome to Episode 422 of Everybody ESL, the podcast for everybody who wants to improve their English, practice their English, or just learn more English.
My name is Ben, and I have a mini episode for you today, where I am going to teach you about one English topic.
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Okay, let's get on with this mini -episode.
In this episode, I am going to teach you another interesting idiom.
The idiom for this episode is, call it quits.
Call it quits. That's spelled C -A -L -L -I -T -Q -U -I -T -S.
Call it quits. What do you think call it quits means?
As with many idioms, the meaning is hard to predict if you don't already know the meaning I'm not sure if you can figure it out just by looking at the parts call it quits even though that might sound a little bit strange it is a common idiom and here is what call it quits means call it quits means to end or to decide to end something something, to end or decide to stop doing something, to decide that something has come to an end, to decide to stop doing something.
We usually use call it quits when we are talking about some kind of activity or project.
We can even use call it quits to talk about ending a relationship.
Here are some examples of sentences that use the idiom, call it quits.
It has been a long, hard day, and now the construction workers are calling it quits.
In other words, the construction workers have said they are stopping for the day.
Here's another one.
They have been married for 20 years, but now they are calling it quits.
In other words, they are now saying or deciding that their marriage is over.
They are ending it.
They are calling it quits.
Here's another one.
She has been running that restaurant for a long time, but she just can't earn enough money.
and now she's calling it quits.
In other words, she is going to close her business.
Her restaurant will no longer be there.
In each of these examples, call it quits means to end or to decide to end something, some kind of activity or relationship or project.
You might be wondering whether you can use another word in there besides it.
Can you use another word in there?
Or do you always have to say, call it quits?
Can you call something quits?
Can you call the job quits?
Can you call the day quits?
Can you call the marriage quits?
Well, no. Those examples do not work.
This idiom only works when you say it just like that.
Call it quits. Call it quits.
And that is call it quits, a strange and interesting and common idiom that I think you should know.
This is the end of episode 422 of Everybody ESL.
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