used for saying that someone is doing exactly what you expected because this is what they usually do
True to form, Tony asked to borrow some more money.
Thesaurus: words used to describe someone's personalityhyponym general words for a person's charactersynonym
Main entry: true
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true to form, they took it well
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true to form
◇ Something or someone that is (or runs, holds, etc.) true to form behaves or proceeds in the usual and expected way.
Her latest movie is/runs true to form.
True to form, he was 20 minutes late for the meeting.
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Main Entry: ↑form
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Main Entry: ↑true
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true to ˈform idiom
used to say that sb is behaving in the way that you expect them to behave, especially when this is annoying
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True to form, she managed to upset everyone before leaving.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.