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part and parcel

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1. part and parcel - Noun

2. part and parcel - Phrase

Meaning

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

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.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? Charles de Lint

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. Dennis Potter

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing. Oliver Tambo

It is as if thinking itself had been reduced to the level of industrial processes, subjected to a close schedule-in short, made part and parcel of production. Max Horkheimer

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive. Yann Martel

The concept of positivity in itself, in abstracto, has become part and parcel of the ideology today. ... Critique has started to become suspect, regardless of its content. Theodor Adorno

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