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Something that is expected, as in It was a matter of course that police officers received special training . It is also put as as a matter of course , meaning “as part of a standard procedure,” as in The employer checked John's references as a matter of course . First recorded only in 1809, this idiom uses course in the sense of “the natural or logical order of events.”

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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