here we are

English

Etymology

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

Proverb

here we are

Indicates ambivalence or resignation about the present circumstances; dismisses the previous observations as irrelevant.
- 2017, Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina, directors, Coco, spoken by Clerk (Gabriel Iglesias), Pixar:
  And I don’t have a nose, and yet here we are.

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