1. matter of course - Noun
2. matter of course - Adjective Satellite
an inevitable ending
expected or depended upon as a natural or logical outcome
Source: WordNetmatter-of-course
The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. That Austria would one day return to the Reich was a matter of course for all National Socialists and for true Germans in Austria. Arthur Seyss-Inquart
One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it. Diana Wynne Jones
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians. John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course. Gustav Stresemann
Sometimes it's heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they've become. Maybe that's why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course. Jonathan Tropper
Nothing is more commonplace than the reading experience, and yet nothing is more unknown. Reading is such a matter of course that at first glance it seems there is nothing to say about it. Tzvetan Todorov