英语词汇par for the course的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	par for the course
词源	par for the course. Par is an American golfing term dating back to 1898 and deriving from the Latin par, “equal.” It means the score an expert is expected to make on a hole or course, playing in ordinary weather without errors. The expression par for the course, meaning just about normal or what one might have expected, owes its life to the golfing term and dates back to about 1920.
随便看	wet one wet one-s beak wet one-s whistle wet ship wetting a commission wet your whistle we who are about to die salute you we wuz robbed whalemen-s chapel whaling wham bam thank-ye-ma’am what am i chopped liver what a revoltin’ development this is what are you a man or a mouse what a way to run a railroad what can’t be cured must be endured what cato did and addison approved cannot be wrong whatchamacallit whatcheer what doesn’t kill me him makes me him stronger what do you know about that what every schoolboy knows what fools these mortals be what goes around comes around what goes up must come down

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