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

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that's the way the cookie crumbles

Expression of events that are out of your control. Usually pertaining to events that result in unwanted circumstances.

Person1: Ah man, the bird's crapped all over my car again.
Person2: That's the way the cookie crumbles.

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that's the way the cookie crumbles

Literally it means thats how it goes. thats what happens.

That's the way the cookie crumbles, get the hell over it.

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that's the way the cookie crumbles

Saying meaning life is unpredictable.

Forest Gump: "Life is like a box of chocolates...(takes bite out of piece of chocolate)...you never know what you're gonna get."

Me: "What a fucking stupid idiot, but, I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles."

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that's the way the cookie crumbles

cookie represents an object of desire. the state of crumbling represents that the object of desire is no longer attainable in its desired form, or that the object of desire has reached its culmination within a state of decline.

High school senior: "I wasn't accepted into my top choice university."
Father: "Sometimes that's just the way the cookie crumbles."

Boy: "My girlfriend and I finally broke up. We had been arguing for weeks."
Friend: "That's the way the cookie crumbles."

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that's the way the cookie crumbles

A phrase meaning, basically, "That's the way things are, you cannot change it". Usually said to calm someone who's whining overmuch, an usually with little effect.

Man 1: I went on vacation and my fern died!

Man 2: That's the way the cookie crumbles.

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That's the way the cookie crumbles

As if to say "That's how life rolls." It's also a good response for when somebody says something you don't know HOW to respond to. It's also just a cute thing to say.

1.
Girl. Classic vegetable is better than chicken noodle.
Boy. No it's not.
Girl. How?
Boy. That's the way the cookie crumbles!

2.

Boy. Your eyes are beautiful.
Girl. Uhm...that's the way the cookie crumbles!

3.

Boy. You're so weird lawlz.
Girl. That's the way the cookie crumbles.

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