Possible Clues:

• Talk of cut after backing strike
• Standard weapon in a manner of speaking
• Care plan impaired by jargon
• Standard cut in theatre, in a manner of speaking
• Standard equipment for jousting in a manner of speaking
• Standard way to get round initially common manner of speaking
• Normal doctor keeping Northern idiom
• Norm to cut jargon
• Way to express reduced light in little parish church
• Step across river to where it's dry, almost, in a manner of speaking