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The phrase you may be thinking of is "was quiet", which means "to make no noise." For example, "The room was quiet when I entered."
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was quit
verb
To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
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I went away and wrote". That sentence doesn't quite do justice to what Pizzolatto did next – which was quit DePauw, move his young family to Los Angeles, and start churning out scripts like a man possessed.
That sentence doesn't quite do justice to what Pizzolatto did next – which was quit DePauw, move his young family to Los Angeles, and start churning out scripts like a man possessed.
The wife said of her husband: "What he would like to do was quit, but I told him he couldn't.
'I shed a lot of silent tears... at times, all I wanted to do was quit and be with my baby,' she has said.
What Mr. Hejtmanek did was quit a high-paying job at BackWeb Technologies to create a wireless software company called Enterprise Air.
Having returned to his career as a substance abuse counsellor, Fennell says the worst thing he ever did was quit his day job to become a full-time musician back in 1993.
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Soon she was quitting more than cheerleading.
HAMPTON, Iowa — It was quitting time.
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I told my sponsors I was quitting," she laughs.
Yesterday, he announced that he was quitting.
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