pipe down
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Another microbiologist and senior doctor, Christine Peters, said she was advised by a senior colleague to "pipe down" or she would find things "hard" professionally.
From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026
Bongino, instead of replying with statistics or facts, instead told Rivera to "take a Valium" and "pipe down."
From Salon • Apr. 15, 2021
The ploy is quite clear: virtually nobody counts as quite deprived enough to have ambitions for a better world, so everybody should just pipe down.
From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2019
So when he heard that Rizzo had told his teammates to pipe down, Kintzler worried a misconception had ended his Nationals tenure.
From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2018
Which provoked Jerry G., who was constantly having to turn half-around and bark “Shhh!” or order them, in his puritanical Okie voice, to “please pipe down back there, will you?”
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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