keep it down

idiom

—used to ask someone to be quiet

Please keep it down in there. I'm trying to study.

Examples of keep it down in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

San Diego Union-Tribune But shhh, keep it down, OK? —Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025

The officer knocked on the window again, the video showed, and told the Dolphins wide receiver to keep it down. —Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2024

The officer had knocked on the window and ordered him to keep it down, and, when Hill told him to stop knocking, the cop had ordered him out of the car. —Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2024

The officer then knocked on his window multiple times and asked him to keep it down. —Li Zhou, Vox, 10 Sep. 2024

On arrival the day before, I had been given a tour and was so overwhelmed by the scale and grandeur of the place, especially in the jaw-droppingly impressive Equestrian Center, that I was politely asked to keep it down; my unbridled enthusiasm might frighten the horses. —Sophie Morgan, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2024

Rowdy partiers in New York City this Labor Day weekend may not be greeted by a police officer telling them to keep it down, but rather by an eye in the sky. —Justin Klawans, The Week, 1 Sep. 2023

Rhymes for keep it down

• chinatown
• tumbledown
• adown
• blowdown
• breakdown
• countdown
• crackdown
• crosstown
• downtown
• drawdown
• dropdown
• facedown