c'est la vie

[se la vee]

French.

1. that's life; such is life.

c'est la vie

/ sɛ la vi /

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.”