Go with the territory
verb phrase
To be an integral part of some occupation or status, esp a part that is not especially delightful: At EPA It Goes With the Territory/ Tierney’s answer was that such speculation ”goes with the territory”/ Such embarrassments come with the turf, however
[1960s+; fr the conditions implicit in a sales representative’s covering of a certain territory, popularized by use in the Requiem section of Arthur Miller’s 1949 play Death of a Salesman]
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