run to form

Idioms  

1. Also, run true to form. Act as one expects, especially in keeping with previous behavior. For example, She ran to form, arriving an hour late, or The door-to-door campaign was running true to form, with solicitors always arriving at dinnertime. This term originally was used for race horses running as expected from their previous record; it was transferred to human behavior in the late 1800s.

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Example Sentences

In 2005, 14 months after seven members of the class of 1969 criticized compensation in a letter to then- President Lawrence Summers, endowment chief Jack Meyer quit, ending a 15-year run, to form Convexity.

From BusinessWeek • Mar. 2, 2011

But the last Liberal convention in 1919 showed that favorites do not always run to form when the grind of uninterrupted balloting begins.

From Time Magazine Archive

On hearing this, the sheep set up cries of fear and run to form a circle about the wolf.

From Healthful Sports for Boys by Rochefort, Alfred