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par for the course
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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Four have fledged since the camera was installed, according to Steers, which she said is par for the course.
Three have fledged since the camera was installed, according to Steers, which she said is par for the course.
His defamatory claims against former Biden officials are just par for the course:
“This is just par for the course for an administration that has staked their claim on making life so incredibly difficult for immigrants at large that they think people will leave and not come to the U.S.,” said Jen Smyers, former chief of staff under the Biden administration for the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for the care of unaccompanied children.
Incumbents have been being thrown out of high office at a record pace ever since the pandemic so it seemed like par for the course.
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