that's the way life is
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Proverb
- That is the way things happen
- Certain things cannot be changed, helped or improved; struggle and objection are pointless.
- 1935, Louis Bromfield, The Man Who Had Everything, page 279:
- That's the way life is, and there's no use trying to go against it.
- 1979, Jay Edward Abrams, A Theology of Christian Counseling: More Than Redemption, →ISBN, page 45:
- There are no standards, no values; that's the way life is. Learn to accept it and slide with it. Stop fighting it.
- 2002, B. Eugene Ellison, Rings of the Templars, →ISBN, page 337:
- Shit happens; that's the way life is. In fact, I want you to take an additional thousand for your efforts.
Synonyms
- that's life
- that's the way it goes
- that's the way the ball bounces
- that's the way the cookie crumbles
- that's the way the mop flops
- that's the way the world wags
- tough shit
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