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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

that's the way life is en · X

Meanings

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

Synonyms

such is life · c'est la vie · it is what it is · that's life · shit happens