Is it quit or quitted (she has quitted her job.) she quit her job 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. An ass that just won't quit is callipygian, not equine I have juba to jive
It's hard to disprove a negative, but i simply cannot idiomatically read ass in your text as relating to stubbornness. To refer to a person who has tendered their resignation What's the meaning of bitching in the following sentence taken from references in 'tfd.com' I quit bitching with grateful thanks for all the good times, things and friends god has pr. 3 quit implies it was an intentional action Give up also implies it was an intentional action, but suggests that one would have liked to continue doing it
I think they all are taken to generally imply permanence. You can use other verbs with the phrase Go is the most common, but you can also quit cold turkey, or kick something cold turkey As to the phrase's origin, etymonline favors the quick preparation theory and indicates there was a period of time where it was not associated with kicking a bad habit It also curiously cf.'s cold shoulder I have heard a couple of times recently the phrase don't piss on my boots and tell me it's raining, usually in the context of a heated argument so i've hesitated to ask speaker what exactly he me.
In my specific case, i need a single word to call an employee who is being replaced by another due to his/her retirement, death, resignation etc Anything like “replacee” may be suitable. Or are the examples of this on google hits just people making it up (possibly a bad cognate.
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