[Ads-l] "call it a day"

[Jonathan Lighter]

1886: OED

[1835 _Pawtucket Chronicle_ (Oct. 9) 2: Then knock off and call it a day's
work.]

1836 [Richard Penn Smith] _Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in
Texas_ (Phila.: Collins) 90: Thimblerig was obliged to break off conjuring
for want of customers, and call it half a day;.

1844 _New York Herald_ (Feb. 13) 3: Capt. Lines of the Iowa will throw in
the hour and call it a day.


JL

"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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