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settle down
verb
(also tr) to make or become quiet and orderly
(often foll by to) to apply oneself diligently
please settle down to work
to adopt an orderly and routine way of life, take up a permanent post, etc, esp after marriage
Idioms and Phrases
Begin living a stable, orderly life; also, marry. For example, After traveling all over the world for years, he decided to settle down in his home town , or Her parents wished she would settle down and raise a family . [Early 1600s]
Become calm, less nervous, or less restless, as in Come on, children, it's time to settle down . [Mid-1800s]
Apply oneself seriously, as in If you don't settle down to your homework, you'll never get it done . [First half of 1800s]
Example Sentences
But she has settled down in the grass court season - on her least favourite surface - and has been finding her form at Wimbledon.
"People spend their youth studying, job hunting, and spending money to prepare for life. And by the time they're ready to settle down, it's often late," she says.
Video and audio settled down for Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, which was written in 1944, a decade after Rachmaninoff wrote his Rhapsody.
Wrobleski, who had a 2.73 ERA in an impressive June before Saturday’s regression, did eventually settle down, but not before Díaz homered at the start of the third to put the Astros up there.
One try, 10 carries, 18 tackles - he was an absolute pest just as soon as the Lions settled down after their initial ropey period.
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