business as usual
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3.0
- idiom
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todo sigue igual
- I went to the office ready to get back to business as usual.
- continue business-as-usual
- back to business-as-usual
- return to business-as-usual
The kids start rushing in and it's business as usual until I see her.
- The kids start rushing in and it's business as usual until I see her.
- And yet we are acting as if it's business as usual.
- They forgot the lesson and they went back to business as usual.
- And the two options are to divulge the information or just continue on with business as usual.
- Each of us can contain leadership to try to really shape our conversation away from business as usual, which didn't work.
- Time would slow down for you while you're accelerated, but the rest of the universe will continue with business as usual.
- So if we carry on with business as usual, which some people seem determined to do with their head in the sand, then what's going to happen?
- If you're not concerned, then business as usual I suppose, and good luck.
- Once you are back at the table, it tends to be business as usual invalidation.
- So most of the mainstream would simply say business as usual.
- I just would if you just put up a black square and then wet business as usual, as most of my friends on Instagram did.
Examples
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Otherwise, it will be business as usual, as Miriam Santiago has long contended it would be.
Academic text (1992) -
The mayor reassured citizens that there would be business as usual in the city even while repairs were ongoing.
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Until we know for sure, it is business as usual.
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It's back to business as usual.
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What I want is for everyone to conduct business as usual.
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This clinic hasn t closed yet, so right now, it s business as usual.
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Yet now that the spotlight has dimmed, many say it is business as usual at America's oldest boys' club.
Academic text (1999) -
Even after the storm, the staff ensured it was business as usual for the hotel, welcoming guests without delay.
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Despite the recent challenges, the company announced that it would be business as usual by Monday.
Antonyms
How Normal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from 'business' (work/operations) combined with the common construction 'as usual' (in the normal way), so a learner who knows the constituents can infer it means continuation of normal activities. This compositional pattern and equivalent phrases exist cross-linguistically, making the expression immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Business as usual may come from a simple picture: imagine a shopkeeper still serving customers while trouble happens outside. The business, the work, goes on in the usual way, so the phrase means 'the normal activity continues' even when things are not normal.