| 单词 | that's how the ball bounces |
| 释义 | that's how the ball bouncesAlso, that's the way the ball bounces or the cookie crumbles. That is the way matters have worked out and nothing can be done about it. For example, I'm sorry you got fired but that's how the ball bounces, or They wanted a baby girl but got a third boy—that's the way the cookie crumbles. These phrases allude to an odd bounce or a crumbled cookie that cannot be put back together. [Colloquial; mid-1900s] Words nearby that's how the ball bouncesthat'll be the day, that makes two of us, that's, that's _____ for you, that's about the size of it., that's how the ball bounces, that's one on me, that's right, that's that, that's the beauty of, that's the ticket The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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