so it goes

so it goes

1. An expression of acceptance of misfortune.

   Synonyms: that's the way it goes, that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie crumbles

   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

   • 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 1, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 1:

     His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.

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