so it goes
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An expression of acceptance of misfortune.
- Near-synonyms: that's the way life is, that's life, such is life, it is what it is; see also Thesaurus:that's life
- His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 1, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 1:
- Related terms
- so it seems, so they say