"call it quits" as phrasal eggcorn?

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> Do you guys have "we're quits" meaning "we're even"?


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."

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


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