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

So it is windy.

It is cloudy.

It is cold and that is pretty much par for the course at this time of year.

So it's fall.

It's Oct..., middle of October and in Canada where I live it is getting colder.

It is getting windier, and it is often quite cloudy.

So I would say that's par for the course for the month of October.

When we say something is par for the course in English it means that it is completely

normal.

So it is completely normal for us to have this kind of weather at this time of year.

And this is actually a golf phrase.

When you play golf it's, par is the number of swings that you will take to get the ball

into the hole at the end, and par is the completely normal amount that you would take.

So par for the course is about average.

So besides it getting cloudy and windy and cold it obviously is starting to become more

like winter.

I know it's only fall but the other night the temperature dropped almost to zero degrees

celsius.

And you'll notice that I'm not wearing gloves yet and I'm not wearing a winter hat yet but

soon we will be wearing gloves and winter hats.

In fact, tonight I need to go out to town and I will probably be wearing a pair of gloves.

So, anyways, par for the course for October, par for the course for fall.