call it stumps

Language: en

Meaning: (informal,idiomatic)To decide to end an activity; tocall it a day.2005,Sean Dooley,The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page130:Eventually I decided tocall it stumpsand 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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