Be Quitt: origin and meaning

"Be Quitt": Examples

  • I don't owe you anything anymore, we're quit now.
  • After I paid my bill, we were finished.
  • He felt guilty because his colleagues had helped him a lot. Now he was looking for a way to reciprocate and be quit again.
  • He gave his girlfriend a meal and said: You also paid me the cinema recently, we are quittig now.

"Be Quitt": meaning

The phrase "to be acknowledged" means that a state has been reached where there are debts, liabilities or various other open issues equalization reached has been.

"Be Quitt": origin

The term "being quitt" originally comes from Latin. Quitt means quiet (quietus). In Old French, this resulted in the translation "quite", which means "free" or "unbound".

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