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done thing en · NOUN
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(UK) Something done habitually or according to social norms, expectations, etc.
"I was only 18 and was having back problems so I got regular cortisone injections. It was the done thing in those days, all the players were having them."
2000 August 12, Vivek Chaudhary, The Guardian:I wanted to be called Linda but Aunt Angela said that was a common name, you know, not the done thing, so I have to be Bella...
1985, Susan Howatch, Wheel of Fortune:
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