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 20, 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 01, 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

When something doesn't go your way.

Dude: Bummer, my girl left me.
Other Dude: That's the way the cookie crumbles...

by acetone June 01, 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

that's the way the cookie crumbles

(ph.)Sometimes life bes that way

Jake went to prison. Oh well, guess that's the way the cookie crumbles.

by undercover hardwareman May 27, 2004

that's the way the cookie crumbles

thats just how it goes or how it happens. theres nothing you can do about it.

Your dog just got hit by a car, someone says, thats the way the cookie crumbles.

by Liquid Racer June 01, 2004