C'EST LA VIE Definition & Meaning

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c'est la vie

[ se la vee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

French.

c'est la vie

/ sɛ la vi /

C'est la vie

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

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"If they have to, and they need the money, which most of us do, then C'est La Vie - that's what they're gonna have to do, you know?" he said.

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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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