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life's a bitch
vs
that's the way the ball bounces
life's a bitch
phrase
Life can be tough, unpleasant, unrewarding.
that's the way the ball bounces
proverb
That is the way things happen
How often have the words
life's a bitch
and
that's the way the ball bounces
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)