call it a night
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To stop working, either at one's job or on a particular task, for the rest of the night. I'm too tired to keep looking at these numbers, so let's call it a night. This package is the last one. Once we get this shipped, we can call it a night.
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call it a night
to end what one is doing at night and go [home] to bed. At midnight, I called it a night and went to bed. Guest after guest called it a night, and at last we were alone.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
call it a night
Informal To stop what one has been doing, for the remainder of the night.
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