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English
Verb
quit scores (third-person singular simple present quits scores, present participle quitting scores, simple past and past participle quitted scores or quit scores)
- (idiomatic, archaic) To settle or balance accounts or differences; to make compensation.
1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it?
- 28th Sept. 1648, Oliver Cromwell, letter
- And such, I hope, these will approve themselves to be. Let them therefore, if I be thought worthy of any favour, leave your Country with your good wishes and a blessing. I am confident they will be well bestowed. And I believe before it be long, you will be in their debt; and then it will not be hard to quit scores.
- Synonyms: settle scores, call it quits
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