"It is what it is."

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by katiesue

Me too! Usually when it's my mother.

lol! I think that's who I got it from... my mother, I mean. Sometimes it's a little game to see who will say it first.
It's also a way I diffuse the very beginning of an argument.
Sometimes she'll start saying, "So, son, are you going to church? Today's Sunday." And I'll say, "Anyway... got to go." We laugh and hang up.