idiom · informal
call it a day
/kɔːl ɪt ə deɪ/call·it·a·DAY
speaking
To stop working on something for the rest of the day.
Examples
“We've been working for ten hours; let's call it a day.”
“After fixing the last bug, the developers called it a day.”
“It's getting late, so maybe we should call it a day and continue tomorrow.”
Band 8 sentence
“After six hours of data collection with no meaningful results, the team reluctantly decided to call it a day.”
Collocations
- call it a day after
- decide to call it a day
Word family
call it quits idiomcall off phrasal verb
Common mistakes
call a day→call it a day
call the day→call it a day
Say it for a higher band
5stop→6take a break→7+call it a day
Synonyms
stop for the day
Easily confused
call it quits
“After months of trying, they finally decided to call it quits.”
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