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quiet down = be quiet; reduce the volume of activity, usually talking.

We had to ask the people behind us to quiet down during the movie.

people talking

quite a few = many

He has quite a few apples for sale.

There were quite a few people at the party last night–almost 40.

quit it = stop

When the boys got into a fight, their mother told them to quit it.

"Quit it right now," she said.

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