You cannot have a party without ball, can you?

Today’s English
March 30th, 2017

If you are serious, you cannot be joyful. If you are joyful, you cannot be serious. Kids are immensely happy on their birthday just as students are on the Annual Day and grownups are on the wedding day and parties. In English, the phrase “to have a ball" means “you are immensely happy”
1. Yesterday we attended his birthday party and we all had a ball.
2. If you are egoless and love others, you will always have a ball.
3. Watch that programme and surely you will have a ball.

Though we want to be happy, there are some situations in which we are so helpless and things go against our plans. Here again ball comes for our help and you can try the expression “that’s the way the ball bounces".

1. We tried at our best to get the order but couldn’t. What to do? That’s the way the ball bounces.

2. That’s the way the ball bounces. Don’t bother about your project failure.

3. We thoroughly checked the students before exam, still two were booked under malpractice. What’s in our hand? That’s the way the ball bounces.

(Uncle : Hi dear. How was your birthday? Did you have a ball?
Little boy: No uncle. Nobody gave me a ball.
Uncle: …………?!)