the dust settles
(idiomatic, usually with the) A heated, angry, or confused atmosphere calms down.
I tried to make amends after the dust settled.
You should let the dust settle.
when the dust settles
We are not perfect, but we are doing the best we can to pull through this crisis together, as one nation. God willing, we will come out stronger when this crisis ends and the dust settles. Muhyiddin Yassin
Do you know what I need? A hammer built out of a starship. It just seems practical. Something like that would have dozens of uses around the home. All of them needlessly apocolyptic, probably, but when you've got a doom hammer, every problem is meaningless once the interstellar dust settles. Brian Clevinger