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idiomcourse► sth is par for the coursein due courseat some time in the future when it is the right time ◆ often used in official situations, business letters, meetings, speeches etc:We look forward to reading your report in due course.Thank you, Mr Rodriguez. I'll let you know my decision in due course.in the course of time(also over the course of time AmE)after time has passed:In the course of time, we may know more about the origins of the universe.Over the course of time, I began to understand what Meena meant.be on courseto be doing the things that will make you likely to achieve what you are trying to do:We're still on course to hold a peace conference in October.Now that the team is fit again, we're hopefully back on course to qualify for the World Cup finals.stay the course(also stay the course of sth AmE)to continue to try to achieve something even though it is very difficult:The biggest problem with diet plans is that most dieters fail to stay the course.We must help the nations of Eastern Europe to stay the course of democracy.steer a middle courseto find a way of dealing with something that is between two opposite and often extreme ways:We are neither Socialists nor Conservatives; we steer a middle course and find ourselves having to defend this position.The government is attempting to steer a middle course between state control of the economy and unregulated free-market capitalism.
See:- a course of action
- a crash course
- a matter of course
- allow nature to take its course
- as a matter of course
- be blown off course
- be on a collision course
- be on course for
- be par for the course
- course of action
- course of nature
- course of true love never did run smooth
- course of true love never ran smoothly, the
- course through
- course through (something)
- crash course
- during the course of
- follow a middle course
- follow/steer/take a middle course
- horses for courses
- in due course
- in the course of
- in the normal course of events
- in the normal course of things
- in the ordinary course of events
- in the ordinary course of things
- in the ordinary, normal, etc. course of events, things, etc.
- in/over the course of...
- let nature take its course
- matter of course, a
- of course
- of course not
- off course
- on a collision course
- on course
- on course for (something)
- on course for something
- on course for something/to do something
- on course to (do something)
- over the course of
- par for the course
- pervert the course of justice
- reverse (one's) course
- run its course
- run its course, to
- run/take its course
- snap course
- stay the course
- steer a middle course
- take a course
- take a course (in something)
- take a middle course
- take its course
- the course of true love never did run smooth
- the course of true love never ran smoothly
- there are horses for courses
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