What is the correct (grammatical) simple past and past participle form of the verb quit? Is it quit or quitted? She quitted her job. (She has quitted her job.) She quit her job. (She has quit her ...
Is it "quit" or "quitted"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Quit is more decisive way of stating action ,where as give up is more a reference to desires. So the teacher was saying that you would quit not think of giving up.
I just searched for "an ass that wouldn't quit" in Google Books. Every single one of the 10 matches on the first page of results was a sexualised reference to a female with a shapely posterior. I also tried searching for "a mule that wouldn't quit" (mules being stereotypically stubborn) to see if I might find any more "literal" instances, but that returned no matches at all.
Is “We are quit” (meaning “We’re even, no more mutual obligations”) a usage from the 18–19th centuries? Or are the examples of this on Google hits just people making it up (possibly a bad cognate...
Did Victorians say “We are quit”? - English Language & Usage Stack ...
'Quit while you're ahead, you cheap skates!'" Within fifty years, however, people had begun occasionally using a variation on this expression that comes much closer to the sense that the posted question requires: quit while [one is] behind, meaning to stop making things worse by continuing to pursue a losing or failing course of action.
I am looking for a single word that you would use when someone has left a company. This can be because the person quit, they are fired, retired,... I was thinking about Discharged but that seems li...