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.

Examples of business as usual in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But things are not business as usual for Burley's Sustaining Our Urban Landscape (SOUL), a non-profit group dedicated to reforesting the city that lost 200,000 trees in Hurricane Katrina. —Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025

Under the Biden administration, the U.S. reverted to a business as usual stance vis-à-vis the WHO and continued to be its largest funder. —Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025

Not quite business as usual, but not far off in a league where a team’s owner is often just as important as the best player or the GM — and sometimes much more important. —Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025

The next morning, L.A. County’s courts tried to conduct business as usual even as destructive fires burned from the Pacific Palisades to the San Gabriel Mountains. —James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025