What is "call it a day"

vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To retire. 2 (context idiomatic English) To cease the activity for the day.

v. stop doing what one is doing; "At midnight, the student decided to call it quits and closed his books" [syn: call it quits]

Call It a Day is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise, Alice Brady, Roland Young, and Frieda Inescort. Based on the 1935 play Call It a Day by Dodie Smith, the film is about a day in the life of a middle-class London family whose lives are complicated by the first romantic signs of spring.