quit scores

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)

1. (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

References

• “quit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.