c'est la vie

American  

[se la vee] / sɛ la ˈvi /

French.

1. that's life; such is life.

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c'est la vie British  

/ sɛ la vi /

1. that's life

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C'est la vie Cultural  

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.”

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Example Sentences

One company removed from the platform is C'est La Vie, which claimed to be a longstanding jewellery retailer run by Patrick and Eileen in Birmingham but had a returns address in China.

From BBC

The company has now stopped operating, with a message on Facebook stating life had "taken a devastating turn" because of the death of a partner, an almost identical statement used by fake Birmingham jewellery business C'est La Vie.

From BBC

To separate her business from the scam, Deanna spent days researching the fake C'est La Vie business and redesigned her whole website to make the difference clear to customers.

From BBC

Deanna Newman set up C'est la vie Jewellery in March last year as an "interesting adventure" sideline which she hoped to turn into her dream full-time job.

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But earlier this year a company operating out of China pretending to be a Birmingham-based jewellers began using the C'est la vie name, damaging the reputation of Ms Newman's business.

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