true to form

Meaning

1. used to say that sb is behaving in the way that you expect them to behave, especially when this is annoying

In the movies · 5

• True to form, we never talk ed about not talking.Big Fish2003
• ...true to form, Miranda had argued both sides of the case.Sex and the City2008
• Take love's true form. Take love's true form.Shrek2001
• And then he put the real bones back together in their true form.David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive2014
• No one can look upon the Supreme Intelligence in its true form.Captain Marvel2019

From the same entry

• come true
• too good to be true
• your true colours
• true to life
• ring true
• tried and tested
• out of true