"call it quits" as phrasal eggcorn?

[Neal Whitman]

Not me. I don't have that expression at all, in fact. Or at least, I didn't. I do now.

Neal




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

LH


On Mar 26, 2014, at 11:53 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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