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as luck would have it

How things turned out, as it happened, as in As luck would have it he missed his train, or The check arrived in time, as luck would have it. The luck referred to can mean either good fortune or bad. [Late 1500s]

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But as luck would have it, that summer Susan and her sister dropped by for a visit one day when they happened to be in the area.

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Countries take it in turns to host its get togethers, and as luck would have it for Sir Keir, it is the UK’s go.

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But as luck would have it, his friend Marika Dalley Snider, an architectural historian at the University of Memphis, was working at the time on a digital reconstruction of the Karnak Temple in Egypt.

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He called me back and said, “OK, as luck would have it, my wife came up with someone.”

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Just then Sarah came into the kitchen and, as luck would have it, she was carrying four or five shopping bags and looking smug.

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