call it a night
idiom
: to go home or go to bed at the present time
I'm exhausted. I'm calling it a night.
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Eventually, the Lakers decided to call it a night for Ayton.
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Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
After dropping the couple off, Hood headed back home, ready to call it a night.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Each evening, after darkness fell, my research assistant and I would call it a night, switch off the veranda’s lone bulb, and retreat to our separate rooms.
—Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Wimbledon is the tennis manifestation of this attitude, the sensible friend who likes to call it a night early.
—Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 6 July 2025
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Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
After dropping the couple off, Hood headed back home, ready to call it a night.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Each evening, after darkness fell, my research assistant and I would call it a night, switch off the veranda’s lone bulb, and retreat to our separate rooms.
—Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Wimbledon is the tennis manifestation of this attitude, the sensible friend who likes to call it a night early.
—Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 6 July 2025
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“Call it a night.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/call%20it%20a%20night. Accessed 20 Dec. 2025.
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