
ProverbWisdom
American origin1955
That's the way the mop flops
Meaning: When circumstances fall unpredictably, accept them without complaint rather than resist inevitable outcomes.
Origin: American teenage slang of the 1950s, first found in a Rochester, New York, newspaper in 1955, which described it as "a fatalistic philosophy of life." It belongs to the same family as "that's the way the cookie crumbles" and "that's the way the ball bounces."
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