excess baggage

noun

1. passenger baggage weighing in excess of the allowed amount.
2. Informal. an unnecessary burden.

Example Sentences

You don’t want to weigh them down with travel gifts that will cause them to have to pay extra for excess baggage.

From Popular-Science

This is your time to just get rid of the excess baggage, to live your life.

From The Daily Beast

Like the Ford engine, it will stand for a good many pounds of excess baggage and still do good work.

From Project Gutenberg

And you let three others die because you didn't want to pay excess baggage on your journey.

From Project Gutenberg

Neither lad was burdened with excess baggage, so they were not as crowded as they might otherwise have been.

From Project Gutenberg

He says we don't want an ounce of excess baggage, or we'll never get anywhere.

From Project Gutenberg

I am a mere piece of excess baggage which you are too kind-hearted to eliminate.

From Project Gutenberg

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