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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After dropping the couple off, Hood headed back home, ready to call it a night.
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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
Taking us back to 1994 at Sherwood Country Club, Daly found himself in a matchup with Woods, but while the 5-time Masters champion was hitting balls and working out, Daly was downing Jack Daniels at the bar, refusing to call it a night.
—Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
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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
Taking us back to 1994 at Sherwood Country Club, Daly found himself in a matchup with Woods, but while the 5-time Masters champion was hitting balls and working out, Daly was downing Jack Daniels at the bar, refusing to call it a night.
—Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 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 8 Nov. 2025.
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