SO BE IT Definition & Meaning

so be it

Let it be so, I accept it as it is. For example, If you can't change the reservation, so be it; I'll travel on Monday. This phrase, often given as a translation of the Hebrew (and Greek and Latin) amen, has been employed in the current sense since about 1600.

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"If this kind of behaviour needs to entail a life sentence, so be it."

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Connolly, then a 41-year-old Northampton childminder, added: "If that makes me racist, so be it."

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He wants the war to end quickly only so that the U.S. and Russia can resume good relations—and if this means Ukraine’s surrender, so be it.

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While calling for "mass deportations now", the 41-year-old childminder wrote: "If that makes me racist, so be it."

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As one of the novel’s characters says, “Survival required disobedience, and each of them must become an outlaw. So be it.”

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