That's the way the ball bounces

That's the way the ball bounces or the cookie crumbles!

Nothing unusual about that. — Said of unpleasant things.

"Susan left me for a heavyweight boxer, and then I got drunk and wrecked my car," Bob bitterly complained. "Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles," Pam answered philosophically.

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