From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe usual suspectsthe usual suspectsthe people or things that are usually involved in or responsible for a particular activity a wine shop stocking all the usual suspects: wines from California, France, Australia → suspect
Examples from the Corpus
the usual suspects• The usual suspects are labor unions, which have been around for a century.• Then come the usual suspects, categories that we can rattle through quickly before announcing the big ones.• But there is a lot in it for the usual suspects.• In other words, the usual suspects. 