in the nature of things

in the nature of things

1. The ordinary or expected course of events.

• ex rerum natura

• “the nature of things”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “in the nature of things”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “in the nature of things” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “in the nature of things” (US) / “in the nature of things” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.