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n. (context idiomatic English) tranquility; freedom from stress or interruptions.
Usage examples of "peace and quiet".
The hands at the braces were backing the main-topsail, and Hotspur could lie hove-to in peace and quiet.
There, Leia had insisted they be left alone so that they might tend to the girl in peace and quiet.
They conjectured that it might have been the peace and quiet that inspired this extraordinary display, that allowed Turn Around Norman to transcend his limits and turn as they had never seen him turn before, turn more slowly, yet with more fire.
I sat long and listened to him in the peace and quiet of the little white-washed interior.
Working himself into a stupor, keeping going on copious quantities of ouzo and one Havana puro after another, was just better than trying to have any peace and quiet at home anymore, where his wife could suddenly go into a screaming tizzy at the drop of a hat and start throwing things, clawing at his face and demanding that he find out what had happened to their son or else she would kill him and/or herself.
Italy has no death penalty, and you will probably be released in twenty-five years, at the age of eighty, to live the remainder of your days in peace and quiet-if you manage to survive prison.
Young Kenton, the junior lieutenant, was going to have to stay on board, unless Southwick decided to miss an evening on shore in favour of a few hours' peace and quiet on board.
The sails slamming and napping, ropes squealing as they rendered through blocks - and then suddenly came peace and quiet as the last order was given with the sails trimmed on the new tack, and the quartermaster calling out the new course being steered.
Like I say I can stand lots of things I dont expect much from them but if I have to work all day long in a dam store dam if I dont think I deserve a little peace and quiet to eat dinner in.
The hands at the braces were backing the maintopsail, and Hotspur could lie hoveto in peace and quiet.