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Default Re: call it a day,mongy,menial,apparel,poverty,battery,ridicule, benign neglect
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Originally Posted by Anglika View Post
1) I might just call it a day.
  • What does it mean? I'm going to stop now
  • Is it a proper written English? yes
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There's a well-known schoolboy misunderstanding of this idiom:

Teacher: Call it a day.
Boy: All right sir. It's a day.

Note: this doesn't make sense. But it's a very common (deliberate) error.

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