business as usual
Meanings
phrase
- The normal course of an activity, particularly in circumstances that are out of the ordinary.
- The normal execution of standard functional operations within an organisation, particularly in contrast to a project or program which would introduce change (although that change may itself become business as usual).
adj
- That is usual, expected, not extraordinary.
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Etymology
Popularized by Winston Churchill as motto in World War I.
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