c'est la vie

[ se la vee ]

French.

1. that's life; such is life.

c'est la vie

/ sɛ la vi /

(no translation)

1. that's life

C'est la vie

1. 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.”

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

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

From Salon

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Salon