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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

what can you do en · X

Meanings

  1. A rhetorical question expressing that an undesirable situation is inevitable.
    • I bend my head over the paper, screw up my eyes, trying to read what it says, but it's no use, I can hardly see to read now, the print's so small that I can't read much except the headlines. Oh, well, what can you do? 2017, Carl Frode Tiller, Encircling: Book 2:
    • Near-synonyms: what can I say, what is one to do; it is what it is

Forms

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what are you going to do alternative lexicographic
what can one do alternative lexicographic

Synonyms

what can I say · what is one to do · it is what it is