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that's the way life is

that's the way life is proverb: that is the way things happen.

Proverb

that's the way life is

  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.
    • 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
    • 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

Synonyms of that's the way life is

Questions about that's the way life is

What does that's the way life is mean?
That's the way life is means that is the way things happen.
What part of speech is that's the way life is?
That's the way life is is a proverb.

Words near that's the way life is in the dictionary

  1. that's the thing
  2. that's the ticket
  3. that's the ticket for soup
  4. that's the tip
  5. that's the way it goes
  6. that's the way life is
  7. that's the way the ball bounces
  8. that's the way the cookie crumbles
  9. that's the way the mop flops
  10. that's too bad
  11. that's torn it

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