be par for the course
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› If a type of behaviour, event, or situation is par for the course, it is not good but it is normal or as you would expect: The school budget is going to be cut again this year, but then that's par for the course.Habitual and customary
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Synonyms and related words:
- accustomed adjective
- all in a day's work idiom
- as a (general) rule idiom
- as a matter of course idiom
- as often as not idiom
- inveterate adjective
- knee-jerk adjective
- make it a rule idiom
- mechanical adjective (WITHOUT THOUGHT)
- mechanically adverb (WITHOUT THOUGHT)
- more often than not idiom
- natural adjective (EXPECTED)
- ordinarily adverb
- prevail verb
- pro forma adjective, adverb
- regulation adjective
- surprise, surprise idiom
- territory noun (SUBJECT)
- the rule idiom
- trad adjective
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