Par for the course

[Hedonologist]

An idiom I learned today was 'par for the course' which means 'to be expected'. This is a golfing reference as a 'par' is the expected number of shots that is expected to be taken to complete a hole/course. Not a very frequent one as yesterday was the first time I had ever heard it, but interesting nonetheless.

[groselha]

This may be a little off topic but I actually learned that idiom from a beautiful song with the same name by Aimee Mann. The song Par for the Course is from her album I'm with Stupid that I listened to back in the 90's. An interesting thing about that album was that in the cd booklet there was a list of all the words used in the songs, in alphabetical order. Not very useful if you actually wanted to read the lyrics but quite a funny game for an English student to listen through the songs and try to cross out each word.

[Hedonologist]

This may be a little off topic but I actually learned that idiom from a beautiful song with the same name by Aimee Mann. The song Par for the Course is from her album I'm with Stupid that I listened to back in the 90's. An interesting thing about that album was that in the cd booklet there was a list of all the words used in the songs, in alphabetical order. Not very useful if you actually wanted to read the lyrics but quite a funny game for an English student to listen through the songs and try to cross out each word.

I learned mine from an old comedy show that I only recently found out about on Youtube. The incident was a man explaining about inappropriate pranks in the office.

'par for the course' is mentioned at 0:16