call it stumps

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To decide to end an activity; to call it a day. idiomatic,informal
    — Eventually I decided to call it stumps and the last thing he said to me as I retired to his spare room was, `So you're not going to Inskip are you?' I answered that no, he was right, I wouldn't go and he tottered off happy.

词形变化

calls it stumps present,singular,third-person calling it stumps participle,present called it stumps participle,past called it stumps past

词源

A figurative use of the cricket expression stumps (“the close of play when the stumps are pulled out of the ground by the umpires”).
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