That's the way the ball bounces! Idiom, Proverb

That's the way the ball bounces!|ball|bounce|bounc

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.

That's the way the brawl bounces!|ball|bounce|bounc

Nothing abnormal about that.

Said of abhorrent things. "Susan larboard me for a ample boxer, and again I got bashed and ashore my car," Bob bitterly complained. "Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles," Pam answered philosophically.

that's the way the brawl bounces

There is annihilation we can do about the way things acquire unfolded, abnormally bad things, so there is no acumen to be agitated about it. I'm appealing gutted about not accepting into the alum academy affairs I wanted, but hey, that's the way the brawl bounces.Learn more: ball, bounce, way

That's the way the brawl bounces.

and That's the way the cookie crumbles.; That's the way the mop flops.Prov. You cannot ascendancy aggregate that happens to you.; You should acquire the bad things that happen. Bill: I bought a hundred action tickets this week, but I still didn't win! Alan: That's the way the brawl bounces. I was planning to acquire fun on my vacation, but I've been ailing the accomplished time. I assumption that's aloof the way the cookie crumbles. That's tough, but that's the way the mop flops.Learn more: ball, bounce, way

That’s the way the brawl bounces

sent. That is life.; That is the accidental way things happen. It’s tough, I know, but that’s the way the brawl bounces. Learn more: ball, bounce, way

that's how (the way) the brawl bounces/cookie crumbles

This is the way things acquire angry out and annihilation can be done about it; that’s fate. These expressions became accepted in America in the mid-twentieth aeon and bound advance to the blow of the English-speaking world. Both are added by alliteration, and neither has a absolutely bright meaning. The animation of a brawl on an asperous apparent can affect the aftereffect of a game, and a cookie abolition into crumbs is difficult to absorb neatly. Edward Albee acclimated the closing in his play, The Zoo Story (1960): “‘Well . . . artlessly every man wants a son, but . . .’—‘But that’s the way the cookie crumbles?’”Learn more: ball, bounce, cookie, crumble, how

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