That's the breaks / those are the breaks

Meaning: There is nothing we can do about the way things have unfolded, especially bad ones, so there is no reason to be upset about it; that's just the way things are.

Example: I'm pretty gutted about not getting into the grad school program I wanted, but hey, that's the breaks.

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