"call it quits" as phrasal eggcorn?

[Herb Stahlke]

I have it in those contexts as well, but I've also heard "Let's call it
quits" in the sense of both parties giving up on something.  Perhaps my use
of "relationship" said more than I intended.


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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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 <
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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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> > > > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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