What does ¿qué quieres? mean?
Expression
what do you expect?
It asks nothing. It is a way of accepting a criticism without correcting yourself: yes, that is what I am like, and no, I am not going to change. It is a cousin of qué le vamos a hacer and es lo que hay, and like them it closes a subject rather than arguing it.
—Siempre llegas tarde. —¿Qué quieres? Soy así.
