Meanings
- Synonym of it is what it is.
Well, it is as it is, and must be borne. It shall be borne undespondingly, though not without grief.
1859 October 5, [Lajos] Kossuth, quotee, “Kossuth and Napoleon [III]”, in The Nonconformist, volume XIX (New Series), number 727, London, →OCLC, page 803, column 22 more examples
Well, it is as it is. Thank God. I believe this was ordained. I feel you and I will live to the end of this.
1916, Katharine Searle, “‘Hatred’”, in Three War Sketches […], Cambridge, Mass.: The Powell Printing Company, →OCLC, page 47Well, it is as it is. At the same time, is it not true that something strange is happening, along with the bursting of what we have called the second layer, the repressed layer and its spilling over in acts of violence? Isn’t it so that people are turning to “something else”?
1976 April, James Wyckoff, chapter 8, in Using Pyramid Power!, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, published June 1977 (2nd printing), →ISBN, pages 86–87Synonyms: it is what it is
Synonyms & antonyms
phraseSynonym of it is what it is.
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