them's the breaks
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them's the breaks
Where it comes from
From break in the sense “stroke of luck” (compare tough break, lucky break).
phrase those are the breaks · them’s da breaks
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That is the way things happen; that's life.
And I want you to know how sad I am to be giving up the best job in the world. But them’s the breaks.
Similar: that's the way the cookie crumbles, c'est la vie, it is as it is, it is how it is, it is what it is, life's a bitch, shit happens, so be it, so is life, so it goes, such is life, that's life
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