business as usual

Meanings

Noun

• The normal course of an activity, particularly in circumstances that are out of the ordinary.
• The normal execution of standard functional operations within an organisation, particularly in contrast to a project or program which would introduce change (although that change may itself become business as usual).

Adjective

• That is usual, expected, not extraordinary.

Related

Opposite words

• whatever it takes

Origin

• Popularized by Winston Churchill as motto in World War I.