"status quo," pred. adj. = as it is usually.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Rian Johnson's 2005 film _Brick_ includes the exchange, "How's things ?" "Status quo."

  Google offers many exx. of the phrase "Everything's status quo."

  Not in OED.

  JL

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