1. has been the custom, has been the practice, has been the tradition - an idiom indicating that an appropriate activity has been the practice for a long time.
I mua i te haere ki te kai, he horoi ringa te tikanga (HKK 1999:139). / Before going to eat, the practice is to wash the hands.
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