| 单词 | to call it half a day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto call it half a day (a) North American. to call it half a day: to cease working earlier than usual and consider the work done to constitute half a day; (hence) to abandon a task which is proving thankless or unsatisfactory; to give up. Now rare. ΚΠ 1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life vii. 90 Poor Thimblerig was obliged to break off conjuring for want of customers, and call it half a day. 1843 Spirit of Times 4 Mar. 1/2 When a thing isn't ‘worth a fig’, one ‘might as well call it half a day and quit’. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxii. 272 It would have been best..for Merlin to..quit and call it half a day. 1914 M. C. Fraser & H. Fraser Seven Years on Pacific Slope xxi. 379 ‘I reckon,’ said the bridegroom to the Texan, ‘that we might as well call it half a day’. 1931 N.Y. Times 23 July 21/5 He was at his office at 9 o'clock yesterday morning, went out to lunch at 1 o'clock, came back at 1:45 and decided to ‘call it half a day’ a little after 2. < as lemmas |
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