Definition
To decide to end an activity; to call it a day.
Origins
A figurative use of the cricket expression stumps (“the close of play when the stumps are pulled out of the ground by the umpires”).
In Context
- "Eventually I decided to call it stumps and 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."