them's the breaks

== English == === Alternative forms === those are the breaks, them’s da breaks === Etymology === From break in the sense “a stroke of luck” (compare tough break, lucky break). === Pronunciation === === Phrase === them's the breaks (colloquial, idiomatic, originally US) That is the way things happen; that's life. Synonyms: that's the way the cookie crumbles; see also Thesaurus:that's life === Further reading === Eric Partridge (2005), “them's the breaks”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1948. “break n.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present