part and parcel

Idioms and Phrases

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

Kennedy’s screed against fluoridation is part and parcel of a policy package that has legitimate scientists warning of a public health catastrophe in the making.

From Los Angeles Times

Someone who’s going to be part and parcel of a movement that’s already been in place for many years to attack educators, to burn books, to move people away from places where you might actually critically reflect upon power in history.

From Slate

"Hosea Easton saw European feudalism and American slavery as part and parcel of the same framework for oppression, though like other Black writers he highlighted the unique brutalities and tyrannies of race-based slavery in the New World."

From Salon

He thus saw European feudalism and American slavery as part and parcel of the same framework for oppression, though like other Black writers he highlighted the unique brutalities and tyrannies of race-based slavery in the New World.

From Salon

“Irvinestown being the town that it is, it’s just part and parcel of Irvinestown.”

From BBC