From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishin the nature of thingsin the nature of thingsNORMALaccording to the natural way things happen In the nature of things, there is bound to be the occasional accident. → nature
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in the nature of things• In the nature of things, a shrinking economy means less job security.• Disputes over authorship are fiercely fought, and in the nature of things, frequently impossible to resolve with finality.• But, in the nature of things, old people spend much more time indoors.• His extraordinary revenue came, in the nature of things, in irregular bursts, mostly concentrated in his first ten years.• That is in the nature of things.• Anyhow, something dreadful in the way of retribution had occurred, in the nature of things.• It was in the nature of things, for time and tide would wait for no man. 