Is it quit or quitted (she has quitted her job.) she quit her job Quit is more decisive way of stating action ,where as give up is more a reference to desires So the teacher was saying that you would quit not think of giving up. Quite a few expresses that the speaker was impressed or astonished by the number, as they would have expected less Or the speaker wants to emphasize on the fact that it was more than you would think
Yet i do not think that there is an order involved that quite a few would be less than many The intended effect is different One could call it understatement. An ass that just won't quit is callipygian, not equine I have juba to jive It's hard to disprove a negative, but i simply cannot idiomatically read ass in your text as relating to stubbornness.
You can use other verbs with the phrase Go is the most common, but you can also quit cold turkey, or kick something cold turkey As to the phrase's origin, etymonline favors the quick preparation theory and indicates there was a period of time where it was not associated with kicking a bad habit It also curiously cf.'s cold shoulder Or are the examples of this on google hits just people making it up (possibly a bad cognate. 3 quit implies it was an intentional action
Give up also implies it was an intentional action, but suggests that one would have liked to continue doing it Stop is neutral regarding desire and intention I think they all are taken to generally imply permanence. If someone chooses to quit college, i can refer to that person as a “former” student of that college It therefore appears that i can use alumnus according to the definitions given for that term gi. The song from the musical really sums it all up
The impossible dream (the quest) to dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare.
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