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here we are

proverb

Etymology

From here + we (“the speaker and the person being addressed”) + are.

  1. inherited from *h₃er-✻ — “I have risen”
  2. inherited from earun
  3. inherited from aren

Definitions

  1. Indicates ambivalence or resignation about the present circumstances

    Indicates ambivalence or resignation about the present circumstances; dismisses the previous observations as irrelevant.

    • And I don’t have a nose, and yet here we are.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for here we are. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA