call it even



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call it even

To acknowledge or consider a situation or exchange as being equal or equitable, as regarding debt, status, ability, a contest, etc. I'll pay the Internet bill if you'll pay the electricity bill, and then we'll just call it even. We both won a significant number of matches against each other, so we just called it even in the end.
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Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
&Thorn;ÓRnÝ-Ancient Scandinavian
Radulf-Ancient Germanic
Bajer['baiər]
CarolinKAH-ro-leenGerman
CyrilSIR-əl (English), SEER-əl (English), TSI-ril (Czech)English, French, Czech, Slovak
Steffan-Welsh