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tant pis

tant pis phrase: so much the worse.

Phrase

tant pis

  1. (italicized, foreign phrase) so 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 of tant pis

Borrowed from French tant pis.

Questions about tant pis

What does tant pis mean?
Tant pis means so much the worse.
What part of speech is tant pis?
Tant pis is a phrase.

Words near tant pis in the dictionary

  1. tansyaster
  2. tansymustard
  3. tansymustards
  4. tant
  5. tant mieux
  6. tant pis
  7. Tanta
  8. tantalate
  9. tantalates
  10. tantalcarbide
  11. Tantalean

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