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that's how the cookie crumbles

that's how the cookie crumbles is the alternative form of that's the way the cookie crumbles.

Meaning of that's the way the cookie crumbles

Proverb

that's the way the cookie crumbles

  1. That is the way things happen; that's life.
    • Are you up to par with the hep talk that is going around schools like Norwood High? […] While standing by the H2o spurt (water fountain) we overheard the following conversation between two really gone (neat) guys. “[…] It was a blind date, and boy did I flip (go mad) when I got a gaze at her! That...1955 February 2, “Dig This Man-⁠-The Craziest!”, in The Cincinnati Post, volume 74, number 16, Cincinnati, Oh., page 19

Questions about that's how the cookie crumbles

What is that's how the cookie crumbles the alternative form of?
That's how the cookie crumbles is the alternative form of that's the way the cookie crumbles.

Words near that's how the cookie crumbles in the dictionary

  1. that's done it
  2. that's enough
  3. that's flat
  4. that's for me to know and you to find out
  5. that's Greek to me
  6. that's how the cookie crumbles
  7. that's it
  8. that's it, send tweet
  9. that's just me
  10. that's life
  11. that's me told

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