when the dust has settled

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1. Also,. When matters have calmed down, as in The merger is complete, and when the dust has settled we can start on new projects. This idiom uses dust in the sense of “turmoil” or “commotion,” a usage dating from the first half of the 1800s.

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when the dust has settled

Thinking that when the dust has settled and the few facts were are allowed to know have been fully digested - we'll come to see things differently.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2022

That, when the dust has settled, we really do remember the good shots more than the bad drops.

From Golf Digest ● Nov. 26, 2013

Johnson himself was entitled to savour his personal achievement, but when the dust has settled many will question how meaningful it truly was.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 24, 2012

And even when the dust has settled from this week's riots, more anti-austerity protests are likely in the months ahead.

From Time ● Aug. 14, 2011

In the morning when the dust has settled and the smoke has blown away, the loaders appear with their shovels and load the coal into the cars.

From Diggers in the Earth by Tappan, Eva March