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call it a night

Verb

Meaning

(idiomatic) To go to bed to sleep.

(idiomatic) To cease what one has been doing for the night.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge. John D. MacDonald

It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us. Rachel Cohn

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