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pipe down
verb
informal(intr, adverb) to stop talking, making noise, etc
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Idioms and Phrases
Stop talking, be quiet, as in I wish you children would pipe down. This idiom is also used as an imperative, as in Pipe down! We want to listen to the opera. It comes from the navy, where the signal for all hands to turn in was sometimes sounded on a whistle or pipe. By 1900 it had been transferred to more general use.
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The same rocket that killed the others had brought a heavy pipe down on his own leg, smashing his left knee.
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Trump piped down and stayed in court, then held a news conference where he deplored the “nasty judge.”
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The conversation escalated and Storm asked if she was going to go to jail if she didn’t pipe down, arguing that she was doing “what the Lord is telling me to do.”
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His crews then had to build scaffolding and run flexible piping down to the field.
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Politico's Rachel Bade caught a rare break in McCarthy's otherwise stony facade when he "visibly shushed his members to pipe down."
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