the done thingBritish EnglishBrE old-fashioned informalRULE/REGULATION the way of behaving or doing something that is socially acceptable 符合社会习俗的事情 It is not the done thing for teachers to hit children. 教师打学生是不对的。
the done thing• It being, of course, not the done thing to drop your trousers in public.• For the great majority, the industrial co-operative is just not the done thing.• I suppose it was not the done thing for a book of Rambles.
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