Is it what it is or what it isn't?

Cliche maybe, but even cliches have their right at times. It is what it is. ;-)

For me, I disagree. I find the saying very helpful.
I'm one, though I've improved much over the years, who can slip to reading WAY too much in to things/situations/people's voice inflections/people's actions/ etc. (Yeah, I have an anxiety disorder, ha!)

But saying that cliche in my mind can help me stop that inane cycle of illogical rumination in my head.
:)

Good question, though! I can see how the cliche may be stupid to some people.

Sometimes... IT IS JUST EXACTLY WHAT IT IS AND DON'T READ INTO IT... Other times... It's used inappropriately... Often, it's used inappropriately. So. Use it the way it's supposed to be used, pepper it into a rare mentioning, don't use it all the time, 'cause life's not that simple. 

May I hear an example of a smart cliché?   Isn't that the essence of the word "cliché"; you know,  it is out-moded, tired and in addition, we have become inured to the sound of any cliche' and we are  no longer enticed by its message?  

I'm too clever for even me today, don't even try it. This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at October 16, 2016 5:27 PM MDT

No, I use it all the time. Got a better way to express that some things are no more than they appear or that they aren't going to change?

I'm just going to quote Mr Freud ... Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar ... Same meaning just a slightly different context

You have never and will never hear me say it.  It's like fingernails on a blackboard. This post was edited by Thriftymaid at October 16, 2016 5:28 PM MDT

it kind of makes sense to me sometimes

All I know is it's almost impossible for me to say in German.