Slang term, origin unknown from the 1920's in America. Used to underline a failure of an action, or dissapointment in reaching an undesired result, with the additional meaning that the result was not an unexpected one.
A:" Well, I asked Cindy out, and she told me to swallow my head . . "
B:"Hey, that's the way the cookie crumbles!"
B:"Hey, that's the way the cookie crumbles!"
by D F Stuckey May 26, 2004
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1. The feeling you have when everything is crumbling around you or when you have the feeling that it is.
2. Another word for depression or a sense of impending doom
2. Another word for depression or a sense of impending doom
Gordon: Gosh I just feel like everythings crumbling around me
Dr. Coomer: Oh dear Gordon, that sounds serious. You may have come down with a case of "The Crumbles"
Dr. Coomer: Oh dear Gordon, that sounds serious. You may have come down with a case of "The Crumbles"
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Person 2: "I'm sorry pal. I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles..."
Person 2: "I'm sorry pal. I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles..."
by Chuck Ikeh May 30, 2004
Get the that's the way the cookie crumbles mug.(noun) : a fragment, especially of something baked (as bread), that is too small to be picked up by pinching between the finger and thumb; a crumb of a crumb
Please wipe the crumblettes off the table.
Person 1: Could someone get me a towel? These crumbs are too small to be picked by pinching them between my finger and thumb.
Person 2: Sure, I'll get you a towel to wipe up those crumblettes.
Person 1: Could someone get me a towel? These crumbs are too small to be picked by pinching them between my finger and thumb.
Person 2: Sure, I'll get you a towel to wipe up those crumblettes.
by Breaker Breaker the Word Maker December 23, 2010
Get the crumblette mug.1. (sympathetically) These things happen, even if we don't like them.
2. (sarcastically) Learn to live with it, you whiner!
2. (sarcastically) Learn to live with it, you whiner!
1. "No fun tonight. The party's been canceled."
"That's the way the cookie crumbles."
2. "You scratched my car!"
"That's the way the cookie crumbles!"
"That's the way the cookie crumbles."
2. "You scratched my car!"
"That's the way the cookie crumbles!"
by Downstrike May 28, 2004
Get the That's the way the cookie crumbles. mug.A term used to explain to somebody that you can't control the way things are going to happen or exspect them to happen a certain way.
by Al May 31, 2004
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