matter of course, a

Idioms  

1. 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.”

---

Example Sentences

Or what about the couple that sets aside, as a matter of course, a clone of each of their children?

From Time Magazine Archive

He would have issued, our rueful worthy, from the very heart of New England—at the heels of which matter of course a perfect train of secrets tumbled for me into the light.

From The Ambassadors by James, Henry

It is a stone building of some size, and has a convenient artificial terrace that commands, as a matter of course, a most lovely view.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore

Indeed no one thought much about his gifts to Ruth; they had long since become a matter of course, a part of the everyday life of Cedar House.

From Round Anvil Rock A Romance by Banks, Nancy Huston

But because he ran away from the South, he straightway became, as a matter of course, a martyr and a saint.

From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Adams, Nehemiah