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Old 4th February 2010, 12:20 AM   #1
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Default ¿Qué le voy a hacer?

Escuché esta frase en una de los canciones de Cantajuego, lo cual sobre Ben ha escrito en su blog. (¿Esta correcta la segunda parte de la ultima frase?) ¿Qué significa <<¿Qué le voy a hacer?>>? ¿Es algo como "What am I going to do with X (a thing, a situation)?
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Old 4th February 2010, 04:55 AM   #2
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usually it means something like "ah, what can you/I/one do?, it can't be helped, so it goes, that´s the way the cookie crumbles", etc. It is a rhetorical question, not a literal request for suggestions.

¿Qué le vamos a hacer? is also heard a lot used in the same way.

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