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that's the way the cookie crumbles

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Are you up to par with the hep talk that is going around schools like Norwood High? […] While standing by the H2o spurt (water fountain) we overheard the following conversation between two really gone (neat) guys. “[…] It was a blind date, and boy did I flip (go mad) when I got a gaze at her! That dirty bird (guy that pulls a dirty trick) that fixed me up with her! I spent a whole chlorophyl George (one dollar bill) on her. Oh well, that’s the way the cookie crumbles (that’s life!)[…]” (Taken from N. H. S. Mirror)

1955 February 2, “Dig This Man--The Craziest!”, in The Cincinnati Post, volume 74, number 16, Cincinnati, Oh., page 19:

That is the way things happen; that's life.


been there, done that

Ellipsis for "I have been there and have done that".

No, I don't wanna go paragliding. Been there, done that. I found it awful.

Huntsman feints at being the Snow White retelling no one has ever seen before, but ultimately becomes the “been there, done that” of fairy-tale filmmaking.

2012 May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman”, in The A.V. Club:

He looked down at my résumé. “Wow, you interned at The New Yorker. Did you apply there?” ¶ “Nope.” ¶ He looked up. ¶ I gave the line a tug. ¶ “I just felt like, ‘been there, done that,’ you know? Also, I dated a few guys in the office so it would've been awkward.”

2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 7:

(idiomatic, ironic) An assertion that the speaker has personal experience or knowledge of a particular place or topic and is not too keen on revisiting or redoing it again.

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been there, done that, bought the T-shirt


that's that

It is quite simple. You're grounded for a week and that's that!

They gave a little frightened cry and ran off as hard as they could. "So that's that," said I to myself, as I watched them scampering. I knew that I had better stay where I was.

1872, Samuel Butler, chapter 6, in Erewhon […] , London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC:

The jury is satisfied and the verdict is that you needn't fuss. So that's that, and let's talk about something else.

1908, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 17, in The Primadonna:

(idiomatic) There is nothing more to say or to do concerning the matter and is not up for discussion or debate.

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there is nothing more to say or to do concerning the matter


that's what's up

(slang) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see that's, what's up.


that's life

[T]hen he shrugged his shoulders and said, with admirable philosophy: "Well, that's life, ain't it, bud?"

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 87:


having said that

1826 A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes
If I am right in that, the necessary consequence must be that this prisoner must be found guilty; but having said that, let me again request you only to attend to the statement of the law […]

however; despite what one has just stated


that said

According to Garner's fourth edition, it's an elliptical nominative absolute standing for that having been said.

Christmas is exploited by capitalism. That said, it is still a religious festival.


that's how the cookie crumbles

that's the way the cookie crumbles#English

Alternative form of that's the way the cookie crumbles.


that's all she wrote

Unknown; circa 1940s; thought to be a reference to Dear John letters. Ernest Tubb recorded a song titled "That's All She Wrote" (sheet music published in 1942), but earlier printed references exist (e.g. The Brownsville Herald, June 1935).

If you see a long yellow streak of all fine smoke / That’s my rocket pulling out, that’s all she wrote / […]

1951, Jackie Brenston, “My Real Gone Rocket”:

There was a note upon my door... I won’t be back no more / That’s all she wrote, "Dear John".

[…] Goodbye — that’s all she wrote.

Then I got Mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote / And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat

Inside information taken down note by note / A silent footstep that's all she wrote

Bye bye, baby, bye-bye, she said in a letter / And that was all she wrote

He said a prayer, and that was all she wrote

2004, Gaither Vocal Band, “I Catch 'Em, God Cleans 'Em”:

I get five short beeps when the machine starts to boot, and then that's all she wrote[…]

2004, Michael Graves, A+ Guide to PC Hardware Maintenance & Repair, page 525:

I, I, got a little paycheck / You got big plans and you gotta move / And I don't feel nothing at all / And you can't feel nothing small / "Honey, I love you", that's all she wrote

2016 February 5, Wesley Schultz and Jeremy Fraites, “Ophelia”, in Cleopatra, performed by The Lumineers:

(idiomatic, originally US) Indicating an abrupt termination of a project, or of one’s hopes or plans.


that's what she said

First attested in the early 20th century. "She" refers to the speaker's imagined sexual partner.

etydate

Coordinate term: that's what he said

Some seemed bored and irritated by the priapic yahooism and overwillingness of peers to read a sexual double entendre into the most innocuous remark. "No matter what you say," said one student, "someone is going to respond with ‘That's what she said.’ "

2008 March 2, Ron Fletcher, “In the Internet Age, a few lessons about bad jokes, good taste”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 2009-04-07:

So this morning we pulled up a pumpkin-pancake recipe on the kitchen laptop. Just one problem: My wife couldn't read it from where she was mixing. "Can't you make it bigger?" she asked. (Go ahead, insert your own "that's what she said" joke here. No class.)

2008 November 24, Rick Broida, “Quick Tip: Increase the Font Size in Your Browser”, in PCWorld.com, retrieved 2009-04-07:

(US, humorous, idiomatic) A joking retort that draws attention to the possibility of sexual innuendo in what was just said.


that one

"Which one do you want?" / "That one over there!"

A specified object, thing or person (especially one further away/over there or known or mentioned later). (This entry is a translation hub.)

az (t)

“-t” added if it’s the object of the verb, as in “I want that one”


that's just me

"Personally, I wouldn't be making jokes if I were sitting on drugs and weapons charges, but that's just me."

2001, Steve Hamilton, Winter of the Wolf Moon, page 197:

(colloquial, idiomatic) Indicates the expression of a personal opinion, but often used ironically as an understatement.


to that end

We think that the world would be a better place without advertisements. To that end, we are going to remove all of the banners from our website.

He was aiming to get into the school swimming team, and to that end he swam every evening.

Villa chief executive Paul Faulkner had backed manager Houllier during the week and asked for the fans to get behind their team as they looked to steer themselves away from the relegation zone.
To that end, the home supporters were in good voice to begin with, but it was Newcastle who started the game in the ascendancy, with Barton putting a diving header over the top from Jose Enrique's cross.

2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:

(formal, conjunctive, idiomatic) For that reason, with that goal, intending to produce that result.


scratch that

en-verb

scratch that (third-person singular simple present scratches that, present participle scratching that, simple past and past participle scratched that)

scratches that (present singular third-person)
scratching that (participle present)
scratched that (participle past)
scratched that (past)

I'll have eggs and sausage. No, scratch that. I'll have eggs and bacon.

(idiomatic, usually as imperative) To disregard, omit, or ignore the previous statement.


that's all

I just think you should take things slowly, that's all.

Used to undercut the force of a suggestion, fact, etc.; that is all I want to say; there is no more to it.


that's the bunny

"Pass the block of gear across will you? It's there on the table beside you." He looked round, and spied a generous block of dark brown resin wrapped in shrink wrap. Where the plastic had been peeled back, a hunk had already been removed, revealing the glassy green inside of the block. "That's the bunny," Rob was saying, "pass the whole lot across on the board."

2006, Jennifer Kirk, Countdown to Extinction:

"I talked very nicely to an Irishman." "The one in the cell?" "That's the bunny."

(UK, colloquial) That is the right person or thing; that's it.


like that

We don't talk like that around here.

I can't believe anyone past the age of six would behave like that in public.

It happened just like that.

Used adverbially or adjectivally to indicate similitude, similarity, equivalent or comparable quality

(adverbial) In such, the same, a similar way, in that particular manner

We don't say stuff like that around here.

I've never seen anything like that in my life.

(adjectival) Of the same, a similar, that particular kind.


I know

A response used to indicate that speaker was in agreement with the preceding statement before it was made.

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response indicating agreement with prior statement before it was made