tant pis

phrase

so much the worse

OriginFrench tant pis →
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Meanings

phrase
  1. italicized; foreign phrase; italicized; foreign phraseso much the worse

    Then deep melancholia struck her, the lace was left out of whatever fine lace should be kept in for moth protection, and the moths ate it up. Oh, well. Tant pis.

    1975, Tennessee Williams, Memoirs, New Directions Publishing, published 2006, →ISBN, page 105

Origin

  1. Frenchtant pis
  2. Frenchtant pis
  3. Englishtant pis

Borrowed from French tant pis.

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APA

tant pis. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tant%20pis

MLA

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Chicago

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