them's the breaks in English

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  "etymology_text": "US origin.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "ref": "2022 July 7, Heather Stewart, quoting Boris Johnson, “Boris Johnson’s resignation speech: what he said, and what he meant”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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        "That is the way things happen; that's life."
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          "that's life",
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        "(idiomatic) That is the way things happen; that's life."
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        {
          "word": "that's the way the cookie crumbles"
        },
        {
          "word": "that's life"
        },
        {
          "word": "those are the breaks"
        },
        {
          "word": "them’s da breaks"
        }
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  ],
  "word": "them's the breaks"
}

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  "etymology_text": "US origin.",
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          "ref": "2022 July 7, Heather Stewart, quoting Boris Johnson, “Boris Johnson’s resignation speech: what he said, and what he meant”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
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        "That is the way things happen; that's life."
      ],
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          "that's life",
          "that's life"
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        "(idiomatic) That is the way things happen; that's life."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "that's the way the cookie crumbles"
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        {
          "word": "that's life"
        }
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    {
      "word": "those are the breaks"
    },
    {
      "word": "them’s da breaks"
    }
  ],
  "word": "them's the breaks"
}

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"them's the breaks" meaning in English

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