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part and parcel |
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part and parcel if something is part and parcel of an experience, it is a necessary part of that experience which cannot be avoided. Being recognised in the street is all part and parcel of being famous. part and parcel (of something) something that cannot be separated from a condition or activity. Being recognized on the street is part and parcel of being a celebrity. |
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A look in the eyes of a shipmate, a low murmur in the most sheltered spot where the watch on duty are huddled together, a meaning moan from one to the other with a glance at the windward sky, a sigh of weariness, a gesture of disgust passing into the keeping of the great wind, become part and parcel of the gale. The street, the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic. His skin was scarred and wrinkled and mottled, and in colour was a purplish blue surfaced with a grey coating that might have been painted there had it not indubitably grown there and been part and parcel of him. |
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part and parcel
