business as usual

idiom

—used to say that something is working or continuing in the normal or usual way

Much of the town lost electricity in the storm, but for people with generators it was business as usual.

As the election nears, both political parties continue to blame each other for all the city's problems. In other words, it's business as usual.

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The organization communicated that this would rise to 160 million tons in 2030, should business as usual continue. —

Amy Nguyen, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024 Too often, businesses get stuck in ruts, focused solely on troubleshooting and maintaining business as usual. —

Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2024 Ordonez isn’t commenting ahead of the change, but it’s understood Prime Video Europe is taking a ‘business as usual’ approach before Bennett’s vision for the business takes shape. —

Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024 Even as Apple is bear-hugging machine learning, the executives caution that the embrace is, in a sense, business as usual for them. —

Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for business as usual

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