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

Returning to the norm could never be business as usual on Tyneside, because having stretched for the sky and found it just out of reach, their fall back to earth landed harder. —George Caulkin, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2025

And yet, in many instances, cost overruns, vague estimates and budgeting surprises are still business as usual. —Dan Galorath, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025

Thursday's practice session for the Houston Texans went from business as usual to worrisome quickly. —Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025

These victories are the result of years of organizing by workers and advocates who refused to accept exploitation as business as usual. —Harvey Epstein, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2025