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
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 Thomas Carlyle
"That Vavasour is greener than grass, you know, tant pis for my poor sister."
From Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley
You are above all this, and tant pis for you.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Edmund Downey
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