true to form

idiom

: behaving or proceeding in the usual and expected way

Her latest movie is/runs true to form.

True to form, he was 20 minutes late for the meeting.

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Heavenly and Quad are en route, riding in Quad’s new Rolls Royce, and true to form, Heavenly makes a playful comment about how Quad managed to get such an expensive car. —

Shelby Stewart, Essence, 20 Jan. 2025 But, true to form, Abbott doesn’t self-righteously shove these issues in our faces, lecturing on about statistics or writing the students as infantile or helpless. —

Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025 But while most love songs tend to discuss love as a force that suspends time, Dacus, true to form, remains grounded in the inevitable. —

James Factora, Them, 8 Jan. 2025 MicroStrategy, true to form, acquired another 2,138 BTC, reinforcing its status as a corporate bitcoin juggernaut. —

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