done thing
Example Sentences
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"We learnt about it in the press. That's not the done thing," a senior French official said.
From Reuters • Oct. 26, 2022
The report said the pair had described a workplace culture in which inappropriate behaviour was not challenged, with one telling MSPs: "Making complaints was simply not the done thing."
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2021
Crick was a friend of Wilkins’s, and it wasn’t the done thing for labs to compete over the same molecule.
From Nature • Oct. 8, 2019
Back then, it definitely wasn't the done thing.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2017
Not the done thing, to shout that name with glee.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
