the done thing

"Going against the grain isn't always the done thing in the music industry, but she had something to say and she said it. And I'm so glad that they've taken heed."

He said: "It seems to be the case that he grew up in an environment where domestic abuse was very much the done thing."

Ms Holubowskyj says that there's been a shift in the consumer mindset in recent years which means we are now used to paying for products and services on a monthly basis, "It's just the done thing now and actually for customers there is a lot of benefit particularly with technology software where updates are just bedded in with the price now."

"The theory was back then that they were doing all these unmarried mums a favour because it was not the done thing to be an unmarried mother," she said.

"We learnt about it in the press. That's not the done thing," a senior French official said.