size of it

1. 1.

   the actual state of affairs

   “that's the size of the situation”

   “she hates me, that's about the size of it”

   Synonymssize

   Broadersituation

   colloquialism

Questions about size of it

What does size of it mean?

size of it means "the actual state of affairs".

What is another word for size of it?

Close synonyms include size. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is size of it a common word?

size of it is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.