usual suspects (English, noun)
expansion: usual suspects pl (plural only)
Senses:
topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
qualifier: crime
glosses: The people, often scapegoats, routinely arrested in response to a crime.
tags: ironic
often
plural
plural-only
glosses: The people or things that would be routinely expected to appear in a particular context.
tags: broadly
informal
plural
plural-only
Forms: