English

Proverb

that's the way life is

1. That is the way things happen
2. Certain things cannot be changed, helped or improved; struggle and objection are pointless.
   • 1935, Louis Bromfield, The Man Who Had Everything , page 279:

     That's the way life is, and there's no use trying to go against it.

   • 1979, Jay Edward Abrams, A Theology of Christian Counseling: More Than Redemption , ISBN 0310511011, page 45:

     There are no standards, no values; that's the way life is. Learn to accept it and slide with it. Stop fighting it.

   • 2002, B. Eugene Ellison, Rings of the Templars, ISBN 059524050X, page 337:

     **** happens; that's the way life is. In fact, I want you to take an additional thousand for your efforts.

Synonyms

• that's life
• that's the way it goes
• that's the way the ball bounces
• that's the way the cookie crumbles
• that's the way the mop flops
• that's the way the world wags
• tough ****