Question of the Day #227

"Why Ryan called it quits"
From the headline of this article at Politico.

上記の文で、call it quits の意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "call it quits" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎の訳の中で最も適切なのは、


〔今まで続けてきたこと・職業などを〕やめる

Answer

According to :

to leave a job or stop doing something permanently

Examples

• He’s decided to call it quits after three years as editor-in-chief.
• They raised $630,000 through listener donations, and then called it quits.
• Peter Buckley called it quits after his 300th contest.
• ‘surely, after covering eleven wars, he could be forgiven for calling it quits?’
• At 10 o'clock I decided to call it quits for the day.