part and parcel

English

Etymology

"Parcel" is used in its archaic sense of "an integral or component part." Originally used as a legal term.

Noun

part and parcel (usually uncountable; plural parts and parcels)

1. (idiomatic) An integral or essential piece; that which must be done or accepted as part of something else.

   Regular maintenance is part and parcel of owning a car.

   • 1998, Wilhelm Geuder and Miriam Butt, The Projection of Arguments, Introduction

     Argument structure is thus considered to be part and parcel of the information associated with lexical, syntactically atomic verbs.

Translations

essential piece

• Spanish: parte integral (es) f

See also

• come with the territory