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To decide to stop working or conclude an activity for the remainder of the day.
"We have made immense progress on the code refactor; let us call it a day and get dinner."
"After fourteen hours in the recording studio, the band decided to call it a day."
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Originated in British industrial workplaces as "call it half a day" in the 1830s when workers left early, standardizing into "call it a day" by 1919.
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