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“It is what it is”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/magazine/305wwln_safire.1.html
It Is What It Is
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By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Published: March 5, 2006
'"We went through it thoroughly yesterday," said Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, somewhat testily after being badgered recently about the Cheney hunting accident. "It is what it is, and I think it's time to move on."
"I made a mistake," said the pop icon Britney Spears, who was photographed driving with her baby son on her lap instead of strapped in a seat, "and so it is what it is, I guess."
it is what it is merely means as the poster of this blog stated (we can't change that but we will move forward anyway). It is not new maybe the manner u here it has changed but it is as it has always been. An expression expressing submission and acceptance pass on through it. C'est fin.