come with the territory

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)To be a common, and ofteninconvenient,accompanimentof an occupation, situation, or occurrence.Synonym:go with the territory1965November 29,Jack O'Brian, “The Voice of Broadway”, inPalm Beach Daily News, retrieved28 October 2012, page 4:Johnny Carson's three-year tenure as top man of "Tonight" leaves him less edgy than any of that grind's predecessors and he has a fine relaxed philosophy about the side irritants of the nation's favorite chatterthon: "Loss of privacycomes with the territory."1974July 30, Jim Fiebig, “Problem Solving”, inObserver-Reporter, Pennsylvania, USA, retrieved28 October 2012, page A4:When one decides to raise sheep, he accepts the fact that coyotescome with the territory.1993June 25, Richard Sacks, “Opinion: At The New Yorker, They Take Their Fact Checking Seriously”, inNew York Times, retrieved28 October 2012:Many checkers have been upbraided by lordly writers and editors and big shots of all stripes. Such abusecame with the territory.2009March 19,Joe Klein, “Don't Panic — At Least Not Yet”, inTime:Impatience . . . is chronic in the mass media. Indeed, itcomes with the territory.

Examples:Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).

Validation Count: 0

Sourced from Wiktionary