here we are
English
Etymology
From here + we (“the speaker and the person being addressed”) + are.
Proverb
- Indicates ambivalence or resignation about the present circumstances; dismisses the previous observations as irrelevant.
- 2017, Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina, directors, Coco, spoken by Clerk (Gabriel Iglesias), Pixar:
- And I don’t have a nose, and yet here we are.