0 the people or things you would expect to be present somewhere or doing a particular thing:
In this sense the book plays it safe, staying close to the usual suspects.
I already avoided the usual suspects, such as baked goods, candy, soft drinks, bread, and desserts.
Back-reading in the books that might have influenced him takes us to a few of the usual suspects as well as an unusual one.
Could it be that, on closer inspection, many of the usual suspects will turn out not to subscribe to the view after all?
First, too many of the usual suspects are lined up to state their utopian, dystopian, anti-urban or prorural pieces.
For him, the usual suspects like flights of coloratura do not qualify as symbols.
Lieven reviews the usual suspects, including neurological, cognitive, temperament, and environmental influences, but these factors have not yet been systematically explored.
As a survey it works reasonably well, rounding up most of the usual suspects and covering the major literary topoi.