C2idiomtimeIELTS-friendly
call time on something
USUK
to decide that something should end
British. It comes from pubs, where staff call 'Time!' at closing time. Common in sport and news.
In context
After twenty years on stage, the singer has decided to call time on her career.
The government called time on the old rules and introduced a simpler system.
More idioms about time
- a blast from the pastsomething or someone that suddenly reminds you of an earlier time
- a long time comingif something is a long time coming, people have waited a long time for it
- a matter of timecertain to happen, although you do not know exactly when
- a race against timea situation where you must hurry to finish before time runs out
- a sign of the timessomething that shows how society is now, often in a bad way