that is that

idiom

variants or that's that
used to say that a decision or situation cannot be changed
I won't sell it for less than 50 dollars and that is that.
I'm not going and that's that.

Examples of that is that in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web And what’s remarkable about that is that streaming has only really existed for seven or eight years. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024 The only other element to that is that there was a war going on. Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024 If candle burning in addition to smoking and cooking are going on all at once, that's that many more chemicals in the air a person is exposed to. David Oliver, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024 One of the biggest confirmations of that is that Ernest learned Osage fluently. Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024 One takeaway from that is that tigers aren’t afraid of bears. Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 21 Feb. 2024 And Taylor Swift is basically picking Team Blue effectively, and so for Team Red, that's that. ABC News, 4 Feb. 2024 Several Southern cities will experience totality, that is that the moon will pass between the sun and the earth. Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 25 Jan. 2024 But the positive of that is that there was a creative flourishing in a city that at the time was pretty cheap. Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023

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“That is that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/that%20is%20that. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.

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