the done thing
Example Sentences
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Reed is clear that university is not the right route for everyone and "doing a degree thinking it's the done thing and all my friends are doing it is not such a good idea".
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
"We learnt about it in the press. That's not the done thing," a senior French official said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2022
Not that change is the done thing around here.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2020
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
Not the done thing, to shout that name with glee.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
