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that's the way the cookie crumbles 

That's just the way it goes; shit happens.
I studied really hard for the test, but failed. I guess that's just the way the cookie crumbles.

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

that's just the way the cookie crumbles 

that's life...and life sometimes sucks...
that's just the way the cookie crumbles, that's just the way the dice roll...like in the superblondes song...
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That chick doesn't write often but when she does, its for Kinktober.
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person2: ya he was a proper lad
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