part and parcel

1. An essential or basic element, as in Traveling is part and parcel of Zach's job. Used since the 15th century as a legal term, with part meaning “a portion” and parcel “something integral with a whole,” this idiom began to be used more loosely from about 1800. Although both nouns have the same basic meaning, the redundancy lends emphasis.

Example Sentences

Research is part and parcel of graduate—and, increasingly, undergraduate—education.

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But Piti said it is natural for governments to push for more rate cuts: “I think it’s part and parcel of being in this position where you have to take a medium-term perspective on things.”

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From there, individual Netflix investors who’d worked in diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives were singled out as part and parcel of a “child grooming epidemic.”

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"Comments about leaders and leadership are part and parcel of being in politics," he said.

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Indeed, the fact that the president and his defense secretary can insult the troops is part and parcel of a long tradition of disparagement and disrespect for armed service members—and this is all just another way of displaying military might in the nation’s capital, without regard for mission, training, expense, or waste.

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