Meaning of PAR FOR THE COURSE - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So it is windy.
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It is cloudy.
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It is cold and that is pretty much par for the course at this time of year.
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So it's fall.
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It's Oct..., middle of October and in Canada where I live it is getting colder.
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It is getting windier, and it is often quite cloudy.
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So I would say that's par for the course for the month of October.
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When we say something is par for the course in English it means that it is completely
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normal.
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So it is completely normal for us to have this kind of weather at this time of year.
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And this is actually a golf phrase.
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When you play golf it's, par is the number of swings that you will take to get the ball
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into the hole at the end, and par is the completely normal amount that you would take.
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So par for the course is about average.
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So besides it getting cloudy and windy and cold it obviously is starting to become more
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like winter.
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I know it's only fall but the other night the temperature dropped almost to zero degrees
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celsius.
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And you'll notice that I'm not wearing gloves yet and I'm not wearing a winter hat yet but
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soon we will be wearing gloves and winter hats.
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In fact, tonight I need to go out to town and I will probably be wearing a pair of gloves.
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So, anyways, par for the course for October, par for the course for fall.
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