more often than not

more often than not
{adv. phr.} More than half the time; fifty-one or more times out of a hundred; not quite usually, but fairly regularly. * /Nancy comes over on Saturday more often than not./ * /Ben is a fairly good runner. He wins more often than not./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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