gut course

When I went to the University of Maryland, there was an unwritten rule — if you were in a class with a football player, it was a “gut course,” a.k.a. a sleeping llama with a bag over his head could pass this baby just by showing up in cargo shorts.

Art appreciation was once a gut course�a simple matter of getting to know the styles and spellings of old masters.

The code reaffirmed longstanding Ivy prohibitions on such standard bigtime conveniences as the athletic scholarship, the fictional job, the specially rigged "gut" course.

Sir: Meteorology 100 at the University of Wisconsin may have been a "gut" course when you heard about it, but the ever-alert Wisconsin faculty obviously took note of the gut phenomenon, because the course is now known to be quite difficult.