it is as it is

English

Phrase

it is as it is

  1. Synonym of it is what it is.
    • 1859 October 5, [Lajos] Kossuth, quotee, “Kossuth and Napoleon [III]”, in The Nonconformist, volume XIX (New Series), number 727, London, →OCLC, page 803, column 2:
      Well, it is as it is, and must be borne. It shall be borne undespondingly, though not without grief.
    • 1916, Katharine Searle, “‘Hatred’”, in Three War Sketches […], Cambridge, Mass.: The Powell Printing Company, →OCLC, page 47:
      Well, it is as it is. Thank God. I believe this was ordained. I feel you and I will live to the end of this.
    • 1976 April, James Wyckoff, chapter 8, in Using Pyramid Power!, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, published June 1977 (2nd printing), →ISBN, pages 86–87:
      Well, it is as it is. At the same time, is it not true that something strange is happening, along with the bursting of what we have called the second layer, the repressed layer and its spilling over in acts of violence? Isn’t it so that people are turning to “something else”?
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