2. phonetic for the french "c'est la vie." = such is life. used when you a re frustrated with something and just give up on complaining about it, cause you're just used to these things keep on happening to you.
1. "hey let's go to tel aviv!" - "totally, i've never been to israel."
Tel Aviv University - the largest of Israel's higher education institutions, if technion is where a person would study to become something useful in life, TAU is where someone would go to learn how to be a hipster.