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- A given behavior that is acceptable, appropriate, or correct in a particular social situation.
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A given behavior that is acceptable, appropriate, or correct in a particular social situation. Often used in the negative to convey the opposite. Calling on a friend when they are sick is simply the done thing. You should know better than to wear a skirt like that to a formal dinner—it is simply not the done thing!
You can use thing when you are referring to something that you are uncertain or vague about, after mentioning something that it resembles or could possibly be. [ informal ] She'd actually taken it home and she put it in this jar thing.
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used to refer in an approximate way to an idea, subject, event, action, etc.: That was an unkind thing to say. I've got so many things to do I don't know where to start. Your information is correct but you left out one thing.
the thing to do. idiom mainly US (UK usually the done thing) Add to word list. what you are expected to do in a social situation: Don't forget to shake hands - it's the thing to do, you know. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Manners & levels of formality.
