The expected always happens

I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]

He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes

Pray remember, Mr Dean, no dogma, no Dean.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.