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What does call it a day mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To retire.
  2. (idiomatic) To cease the activity for the day. [from 1919]
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Worn out by years of struggling for proper financing, she decided to call it a day.
We decided to call it a day and wend our way back to York by as many country lanes as possible.
It would have been easy, however, for them to dump out a litany of complaints and call it a day.
However, at 52 he has decided to call it a day and let his colleagues carry on the work.
He will have to forgive you and stop being a parole officer, or you'll have to call it a day.
An hour or so of being battered by wind and rain, with only one small fish each, we decided to call it a day.

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