"call it quits" as phrasal eggcorn?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/27/2014 12:51 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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> > Do you guys have "we're quits" meaning "we're even"?
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>Only literarily, where I've, heretofore, interpreted "we're quits" as
>something like, "we're not going to have anything to do with each other,
>anymore."

I have it literarily as "we're even".  But I read a lot of 17th and
18th century literary.

Joel


>Which kinda follows, if you don't give it no whole lot of thought.
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