"call it quits" as phrasal eggcorn?

[Herb Stahlke]

No.  For me it means whatever relationship we had is over.


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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> LH
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> On Mar 26, 2014, at 11:53 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net
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> >> This message is the first intimation I ever had that "call it quits"
> >> meant anything other than "quit".
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> > It's news to me, too.
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> > Youneverknow.
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