done thing

Example Sentences

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"In many ways some people might say it's a symbol of how things have changed. That certainly wouldn't have been a done thing in the past."

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2023

"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