that's\ the\ way\ the\ ball\ bounces

that's\ the\ way\ the\ ball\ bounces
• that's the way the ball bounces
• 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.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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