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c'est la vie

[ se la vee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

French.

that's life; such is life.

c'est la vie

/ sɛ la vi /

(no translation)

that's life

C'est la vie

An expression used to play down some minor disappointment: “So we lost a softball game by twenty-two runs. �� can you do; c'est la vie.” From French, meaning “that's life.”

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Phosphorescent — went quiet after the 2018 album “C’est La Vie.”

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As the countess herself would say, "Chic C'est la Vie!"

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Guillermo del Toro’s almost realized “The Rise and Fall of Jabba the Hutt” was scrapped, but the filmmaker is saying c’est la vie.

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“I think if a guy doesn’t want to be here for whatever reason, then c’est la vie, it’s all good.”

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And one of the store owners actually, he owns C'est La Vie, and he's an incredible man, and he said his sales went up 100% because people were not only buying the book, they were buying all these things in his little shop.

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c'est la guerre cestode

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