"call it quits" as phrasal eggcorn?

[Dan Goncharoff]

I have it in several contexts. In a game or contest, it means walking away
with no one declared a winner. The same would be true of an argument -- no
one wins, both sides end the discussion. The only way it could constitute
the end of a relationship is if the relationship had deteriorated to
nothing more than a never-ending argument.


DanG


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:

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> No.  For me it means whatever relationship we had is over.
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> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
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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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