quit : Idioms & Phrases

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Banana quit

  • noun any of several honeycreepers
WordNet
  • (Zoöl.), a small bird of tropical America, of the genus Certhiola, allied to the creepers.
Webster 1913

call it quits

  • 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 genus Euetheia. 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.
Webster 1913