Meanings of familiar business in English

The preliminary stages of the making of the merger followed along familiar business lines.

They watched the whole familiar business with suppressed excitement, forgetting they were hungry and impatient.

Again Columbus proceeded with the familiar business of calking ships, buying provisions, and engaging a crew.

Those reassuringly familiar business clothes had been replaced by robes of gunmetal blue that billowed like sailcloth and seemed to absorb the light.

'I take it we are in the familiar business of "sparing the family embarrassment".'