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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
Three successive breaks - down to quality returning as much as poor serving - began the second set before Swiatek settled down to maintain the advantage and force a decider.
Gonsolin settled down after that and though he didn’t allow another run, New York had runners on base in each of the five innings he worked.
Scott recalled growing up in a working-class family in Birmingham, "in a world of soap operas and things" where TV characters were mostly in heterosexual relationships or "settled down" in a nuclear family.
The Japanese southpaw loaded the bases in each of the first two innings, but settled down to make it through five innings, giving up five hits and striking out four.
Gonsolin did settle down from there, giving up just one more run the rest of the way.
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