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revert to type

if someone reverts to type, they return to their usual behaviour after a period of behaving in a different, usually better, way. After several weeks without saying a rude word to anyone, he seems to have reverted to type.

true to form/type

if someone does something true to form, they behave in the bad way that you would expect them to. True to form, she turned up an hour later than we'd arranged.

See also: form, true