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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.”

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

From Time Magazine Archive

She felt sure of it, and many an hour she spent before the mirror, admiring herself and anticipating the time when she would be a grown-up lady, and as a matter of course, a belle.

From 'Lena Rivers by Holmes, Mary Jane

As a matter of course a bouquet of roses was found, and it was queried in all innocence of unsophisticated girlhood as to who could have sent it.

From Sixty Years of California Song by Alverson, Margaret Blake

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

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