call it a night

call it a night
call it a night
to end what one is doing at night and go [home] to bed. •

At midnight, I called it a night and went to bed.

Guest after guest called it a night, and at last we were alone.

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{v. phr.} To declare that an evening party or other activity conducted late in the day is finished. * /I am so tired that I am going to call it a night and go to bed./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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