It Is What It Is

I was flipping through the cable channels and I caught Chris Rock doing some stand-up comedy. He said “nothing that precedes the phrase it is what it is, is ever good.”

I had a good laugh over it—because it is so true.

But as I thought about it some more I realized  that the phrase did not necessarily have to apply to all things bad—if someone falls in love or gets the new job or wins the lottery that is what it is too. The addage still applies.

Because the colloquilism is meant to invoke surrender over things one has no control over.

So, in of itself,  it would seem the phrase  it is what it is---is what it is.