settle down

If - and it is still an if - this calm can last, politics can settle down and businesses might feel more confident.

She took a drive to settle down, stopping to chat with a friend who owns a nearby business.

Benches cleared before tempers settled down, and the Yankees would best the Mets in five games.

“That person will remain in charge ‘until things settle down and life gets back to normal.’

Finally Cassiopeia sat up and smiled, proving she was not, in fact, dead from the plague, and everyone settled down.