What does call it a day mean?
Idiom Meaning:
finish work or give up
Examples of this Idiom in Movies & TV Shows:
Payback (1999)
Time of Scene:
Porter: You’d think after five months of lying on my back, I would have given up any idea of getting even, just be a nice guy and call it a day. Nice guys are fine. You have to have somebody to take advantage of, but they always finish last.
Prison Break “English, Fitz or Percy” (2005)
Time of Scene:
Michael Scofield: Well, you’ve got one up on me, Warden. You know why I needed to file those motions, but I have no idea why you needed to transfer me.
Warden Henry Pope: Traffic control, Scofield, that’s all. Traffic control. Look, it’s coming up on five o’clock. What do you say we call it a day?
Michael Scofield: I don’t think I can do that, sir.
Warden Henry Pope: Why not?
Michael Scofield: If I let go of this support right now, the whole thing’s coming down. See, the Taj was designed using axial force. A series of internal forces along the longitudinal axis.
Van Helsing (2004)
Time of Scene:
Van Helsing: Now, my superiors would like for me to take you alive, so that they might extricate your better half.
Mr. Hyde: I’ll bet they bloody would.
Van Helsing: Personally, I’d rather just kill you and call it a day. But let’s make it your decision, shall we?
Mr. Hyde: Hmm, do let’s.
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