the done thing

"One has to fight the attitude in this country that to be rich is not the done thing," he said.

I know it's not the done thing, Lee, but you could help me stamp it out.

People-watching, it seems, is not really the done thing here.

It had rather given the impression that splits were not the done thing.

Everyone always comes in on market-day: it's one of the done things.

"It is now becoming the done thing to make mistakes!

I soon discovered that washing wasn't really the done thing.

I suppose it was not the done thing for a book of Rambles.

For the great majority, the industrial co-operative is just not the done thing.

I was politely told by a young guy that this was not the done thing.

Everyone sweated in a suit because dressing up to go out was the done thing.

Indeed it was the done thing to try to contract out of everything on offer, even one's blood-group.

Especially now he knew that it was not the done thing for all four of them to go down in the sub at the same time.

"You know, it's not really the done thing for you and me to be seen together like this.

It's not really the done thing to give your teachers presents and cards in secondary school, so they were much appreciated.

Here in Denmark it is not the done thing for parents to strike their children.'

It is not the done thing here, Joseph realized, to have conversations with your fellow inmates.

The arts were not the done thing," he says.

When you are sacking an employee is it the done thing to let them know well in advance?

Apparently it's no longer the done thing to frazzle your camera operators.

It just doesn't happen, it's not the done thing.

It is, of course, not quite the done thing to discuss Her Majesty's wealth.

He'd gone more because it was the done thing to travel at that age than because he'd wanted to.

It wasn't the done thing in the country.

It just wasn't the done thing to have men hanging around: they could bring in germs off the street."