1. par for the course - Adjective
2. par for the course - Phrase
par for the course (not generally comparable, comparative more par for the course, superlative most par for the course)
(idiomatic) To be expected; normal; common.
It took a long time to finish, but that's par for the course on a project like this.
When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course. John Cale
That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end. Anthony Holden
[Pru] "...He's still trying to work out what you two did to him, as if you were the only parents in the world who didn't keep wiping their kid's ass until he was thirty. I tell him: Get real, Nelson. Lousy parents are par for the course. My God. Nothing's ideal." John Updike