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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While the fashion designer prepares to call it a night in Paris, Lamy, his wife and creative partner, is braving the chilly New York air for a cigarette break on Salon 94’s outdoor terrace.
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Osman Can Yerebakan, Curbed, 13 Jan. 2025
For the kiddos: Noon Year Celebration When and where: 9am-noon or 1-4pm | Children's Museum of Phoenix
Details: Celebrate all the fun of New Year's Eve — like a balloon drop and sparkling cider toast — during the day so the kids (and maybe mom and dad, too) can call it a night early.
—Jessica Boehm, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
Though some in attendance and onstage at downtown Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Friday evening would call it a night celebrating nostalgia, Little Big Town's first-ever headlining show at the Lower Broadway venue — alongside Sugarland and openers The Castellows — was anything but that.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 14 Dec. 2024
More than 40 years into his late-night hosting career, David Letterman isn’t planning to call it a night anytime soon.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
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Osman Can Yerebakan, Curbed, 13 Jan. 2025
For the kiddos: Noon Year Celebration When and where: 9am-noon or 1-4pm | Children's Museum of Phoenix
Details: Celebrate all the fun of New Year's Eve — like a balloon drop and sparkling cider toast — during the day so the kids (and maybe mom and dad, too) can call it a night early.
—Jessica Boehm, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
Though some in attendance and onstage at downtown Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Friday evening would call it a night celebrating nostalgia, Little Big Town's first-ever headlining show at the Lower Broadway venue — alongside Sugarland and openers The Castellows — was anything but that.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 14 Dec. 2024
More than 40 years into his late-night hosting career, David Letterman isn’t planning to call it a night anytime soon.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
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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 20 Jan. 2025.
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