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that's how the cookie crumbles
vs
that's the way the ball bounces
that's how the cookie crumbles
that's the way the ball bounces
proverb
That is the way things happen
How often have the words
that's how the cookie crumbles
and
that's the way the ball bounces
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)