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it is what it is, seemingly uttered by every athlete asked to comment on a loss or a poor performance; now more and more by anyone having a bad day.
it's a totally empty and worthless comment. somewhere I recently saw it emended to, "It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time."
-joe (the old peevologist) friday
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Latter-day? Like my sister says, she says: "there's always been things like this and things that are different." Peeve on, neighbour. 
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Pop, as in, "This painting will make the wall pop" (with color).
Yuck.
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I'd hate for my wall to pop, sounds like it would make a terrible mess.
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I've not usually used "It is what it is" for failures, rather for things that cannot, or likely will not, be changed, yet someone has chosen to complain about them even so. It's sort of a softer way of saying "Get over it", or as my sainted mother was fond of intoning: "That's the way the cookie crumbles!" :0)
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I've not usually used "It is what it is" for failures, rather for things that cannot, or likely will not, be changed ... That which is past cannot be changed.
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I'm under the impression they're doing it all the time.
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it is what it is is the new it's all good.
formerly known as etaoin...
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it is what it is
It seems to me that it is different from it happened in it has the extra implied info that it was out-of-the-control-of-the-utterer. Not quite as phatic as hello, but somewhere in between that and we was robbed.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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>out-of-the-control-of-the-utterer
I don't think that's quite the way it's meant, at least not by those who've had a bad game [day]. to me it sounds more like, "yeah, I (or we) had a bad game [day]; <this sport [life]> is like that [hard] -- let's move on."
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