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par for the course
Idioms and Phrases
An average or normal amount; just what one might expect. For example, I missed three questions, but that's par for the course . This term comes from golf, where it refers to the number of strokes needed by an expert golfer to finish the entire course. Its figurative use for other kinds of expectation dates from the second half of the 1900s.Example Sentences
But that's all par for the course in conservative Florida politics.
Goldberg said the defensive reaction is par for the course for Trump officials.
Human rights experts told Salon that the maltreatment of the Venezuelans captured in the clip is par for the course for prisoners held at CECOT.
Trump’s call for impeachment “is par for the course. He routinely berates and threatens judges and others who dare to question the legality of these actions,†said Michael Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina.
But it is par for the course in an administration dominated by licentious, lying lotharios and those who wish to make money off of the backs of the voters.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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