 After all, we can't all possess the natural eloquence of a Becky Pringle. NEA, we have to win all the things! All the things! All the things! I'm reminded as well of the nothing-to-say-so-I'll-say-this awkward silence filler, it is what it is. At best, a flaccid dictum. I've always imagined it as a jeopardy response. What is it is what it is?