that's the way the cookie crumbles

This is said when something bad has happened to someone - implying that it is was just bad luck.

Could also suggest that this bad luck had to happen to someone.

Tony: Oh gawd - I got paired with Micky D?
Matthew: That's the way the cookie crumbles!

by pdc May 26, 2004

that's the way the cookie crumbles

A stupid, irritating way of summing up the way of the world. Like saying "ho hum, shit happens."

"Oh no, that wasp just stung me and gave me an allergic reaction and now I only have 2 seconds to live"
"Well that's the way the cookie crumbles I'm afraid."

by Floyd the barber May 31, 2004

that's the way the cookie crumbles

From the movie 'Bruce Almighty' means that is they way it is, some things just happens, you roll your dice and pay your price ect.

Why does it always rain when I go to a baseball game?
That's the way the cookie crumbles

by Dean May 29, 2004

that's the way the cookie crumbles

Euphemism for "life sucks."

Oh, I'm sorry your girlfriend broke up with you; I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles.

by fireworks_are_blue August 19, 2004

that's the way the cookie crumbles

Bruce Almighty, said by Bruce Campbell in an effort to make a catchphrase similar to "And Thats the way it was"

Also a pun in that film, as the news story was about a giant cookie,

It means:

Thats the way it happened

....*news story*..

and thats the way the cookie crumbled

by Mike_Mohill June 1, 2004

that's the way the cookie crumbles

Idiom, synonym of "that's life".

Timmy: I can't believe I revised for four hours on those topics and not one of them came up in the exam
Jinny: That's the way the cookie crumbles
Timmy: stfu

by brendan May 28, 2004

that's the way the cookie crumbles

It means that's how life is. It's used after something unfortunate happens

Jim knocks over Jane's ceramin doll collection and says "Well that's the way cookie crumbles"

by Joe Garifo May 27, 2004