A fork of Rural Dictionary
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!"
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
Absolutely, without a doubt, yes.
Do I want to be surrounded by kittens while also being handed a million dollars? Totes them crumblies, fam.
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.
A way to describe something hard or dry. Often given as an example to Martin's cooking during a bake off
'My mouth is as dry as a passionfruit crumble'
'This brick is as hard as a passionfruit crumble'
Literally it means thats how it goes. thats what happens.
That's the way the cookie crumbles, get the hell over it.
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."