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c'est la vie

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
c'est la vie /ˌseɪ lɑː ˈviː/

▶exclamation expressing resignation in the face of an undesirable situation.

– origin Fr., lit. ‘that's life’.

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