Meaning of what can you do | Babel Free

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A rhetorical question expressing that an undesirable situation is inevitable.

Examples

“Near-synonyms: what can I say, what is one to do; it is what it is”

“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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