Reader question:
In this sentence – It goes with the territory and when you take up the job you expect it – what does "it goes with the territory" mean?
My comments:
It means you have to accept the unpleasant aspects (whatever they are) of the job because they are part and parcel of the whole.
"It goes with the territory" is a term believed to be popularized by Arthur Miller, who in "Death of a Salesman" wrote: "A salesman has to dream, it comes with the territory." I don't know about dreams, but a salesman certainly has quotas – that goes with the territory.
Anyways, understand the term this way. Suppose you are going hiking in the mountains, you have to negotiate your way through various geography, hills and valleys, rivers and creeks, and bumpy roads, if any. These all goes with the territory. Accept them. If you don't accept them, you'd better stay in the city.
Or if you're a celebrity and you enjoy public attention, you should prepare yourself for paparazzi, the gossip column and what have you. Profit-driven newspapers will go out of their way to air your dirty linen in public and you have to live with it. It comes with the territory – Can't have one without the other.
Sports stars get a lot of love when they win. When they lose, they get booed. That, yes, goes with the territory.
My niece is seven and, like all good children, she hates homework. But homework goes with the territory of going to school. School interferes with a happy childhood but it is part of us growing up and being turned into tolerable young adults – she'll learn to deal with it. My fumbling attempt to pacify her is a small pep talk like this: "The worst part of it is to have Ma and Pa and grandies come after us all the time, chanting homework, homework, no homework, no television, isn't it? That's terrible of them doing so. It makes us really sad and unhappy, doesn't it? Why don't we do it this way then? Why don't we finish homework first every day after school? If we do that, dear Ma and Pa and grandies won't have a thing to say but allow us to watch 'silly television' or do whatever we want to."
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