That's the way the ball bounces

That's the way the ball bounces
or[the cookie crumbles!] Nothing unusual about that. - Said of unpleasant things. * /"Susan left me for a heavyweight boxer, and then I got drunk and wrecked my car," Bob bitterly complained. "Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles," Pam answered philosophically./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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