It should be an expected thing to do.

But I don't want to do the expected thing.

Still she took the preferred appendage, which seemed to be the expected thing to do.

When it's finished, she steps back to admire her handiwork and, of course, the expected thing happens.

"Yes sir," he said again, as if confidence in him was the most expected thing in the world.

People showed up and acted out because it was an expected thing.

He had died with the dignity that simple, expected things often hold.

He does not do the expected thing to get acceptance.

I think we got trouble if we do the expected thing here.

And whether in song or speech, they can be relied upon to say the obvious and expected thing.