what can you do

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Phrase[edit]

what can you do?

  1. A rhetorical question expressing that an undesirable situation is inevitable.
    Near-synonym: what can I say
    • 2017, Carl Frode Tiller, Encircling: Book 2:
      I bend my head over the paper, screw up my eyes, trying to read what it says, but it's no use, I can hardly see to read now, the print's so small that I can't read much except the headlines. Oh, well, what can you do?

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