excess baggage

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noun

passenger baggage weighing in excess of the allowed amount.

Informal. an unnecessary burden.

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Other officials told reporters that searchers also spotted a life vest and baggage in the water.
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Shake off any excess flour and gently place in the heated oil.
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Fold over the edges and crimp, then trim any remaining excess.
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They take home mental baggage unlike anything carried in almost every other job.
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Following the pre-recession excess of T-Pain and Akon, hip-hop was in search of greater authenticity.
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Victor was proud of his achievement, and went about recommending it and urging every one to partake of it to excess.
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The authorization borne by him was very extraordinary and had a great excess of the ordinary warrants.
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To talk of an excess of labor, or an inability to employ it, in such a country as Ireland, is to insult the general understanding.
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All applications, including therein any on which action may have been deferred because in excess of the aforesaid 10 per cent.
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