tant pis
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He is content to address what he calls “a self-selected audience of intellectually upscale readers,” and if you don’t know what he means by “Pecksniffian Comstockery,” tant pis.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021
But, as he may say now: tant pis.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2010
"If she will punish herself, tant pis pour elle."
From Anna Karenina by Garnett, Constance
The people are beginning to quote you here: tant pis pour eux!
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas
Destruction might come after—at Cape Town, perhaps, but if it did, tant pis!
From Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa by Stockley, Cynthia
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