0 what should be expected because of past experience:
These expressions contrast with fixed idioms such as long time no see or par for the course, which occur in a single fully specified form.
It is therefore interesting to note examples of behaviour which was then par for the course but which is now less tolerable for national and international public opinion.
Failure to consult is par for the course for that panic-stricken council.
That is par for the course for almost any council treasurer.
Instead of praising the remarkable benefits to consumers of privatisation, it has wilfully ignored them, which is par for the course.
Four specific questions, not one specific answer—that is about par for the course.
It used to be regarded as par for the course.
There is nothing unusual in our case; it is just about par for the course.
