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par for the course



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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.
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But that's all par for the course in conservative Florida politics.

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Goldberg said the defensive reaction is par for the course for Trump officials.

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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.

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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.

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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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