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that's the way the cookie crumbles 

I studied really hard for the test, but failed. I guess that's just the way the cookie crumbles.

That's the way it is 

Used to mean that nothing can be done about a particular condition,because it just has to be that way and one just has to live with it.
Kenny,Kevin,Uriah,Harun,Hayden,Harvey,Jason,Jim,Jamie,Matt,Robert,Bill,Tom,and Elliott may only wear ball caps and winter jackets. It's plain they all would rather wear impressive headgear and overcoats, but they can't, and that's the way it is.
That's the way it is by JMC70 April 1, 2017

that's the way the cookie crumbles 

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!"

that's the way the cookie crumbles 

A saying or phrase meaning "That's just the way things happen".
Person 1: "I can't believe I lost all that money on a stupid bet..."

Person 2: "I'm sorry pal. I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles..."

That's the way the cookie crumbles. 

1. (sympathetically) These things happen, even if we don't like them.

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 

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.
Person 1: I never win anything
Person 2: Thats the way the cookie crumbles