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Chris -- 2018-04-11
used at http://salomesays.com/blog/2010/09/bull-ease/ for matter of course
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I couldn’t find it among all the paragraphs. Perhaps you could cut and paste the one or two sentences where the context is disclosed.
Does the utterer intend “manner of course” to mean something slightly different from “matter of course?” I can’t tell if the former is necessarily a departure of the latter when I Google up other examples.
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Exposing your throat to an individual that destroys happily as a manner of course is self-defeating and stupid.
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“As a manner of course” makes nice sense as a substitution for matter. I interpret it as emphasizing the action or way of a typical response, rather than its typicalness. “A matter of course” is a strange idiom; is it a transliteration from Latin?
Last edited by burred (2010-09-28 12:45:50)
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“A matter of course†is a strange idiom; is it a transliteration from Latin?
Apparently not. The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms has an entry on it.
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