pipe down

verb

1. informal.
   intr, adverb to stop talking, making noise, etc

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.

Related Words

• cut off
• gag
• muffle
• mute
• muzzle
• quash
• quell
• squelch
• stifle
• subdue
• suppress