that's _____ for you

that's _____ for you idiom
This is the way something or someone is, as in She's changed her mind again; that's Mary for you, or They came close to winning but they lost; that's tennis for you.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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