That is the way things happen / Certain things cannot be changed, helped or improved; struggle and objection are pointless.

That is the way things happen.

(only attributive) Alternative form of larger than life.

That is the way things happen

(idiomatic, ironic) An assertion that the speaker has personal experience or knowledge of a particular place or topic.

The tactics or strategies of an adversary can be also be used against him or her.

(idiomatic) To try to do too much; to take on or attempt more than one is capable of doing.

(Canada) A holiday, originally to give thanks to God for the harvest, celebrated annually on the second Monday of October.

(botany) Any of very many primitive plants that consist of a thallus (plant body not differentiated into roots, stems and leaves), formerly collected in the obsolete taxonomic group Thallophyta.

An expression of gratitude. / A short prayer said at meals; grace, a benediction. / A public celebration in acknowledgement of divine favour.