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call it stumps

verb

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. To decide to end an activity

    To decide to end an activity; to call it a day.

    • 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.

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