Idiom
as it happens
Meaning
By coincidence, incidentally.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I need a pen, and as it happens, I have one here.”
“I was looking for a new apartment, and as it happens, my neighbor is moving out next month.”
“The professor mentioned a rare manuscript during the lecture, and as it happens, I had already spent the morning studying that very text in the library.”
Examples
simple
“I need a pen, and as it happens, I have one here.”
contextual
“I was looking for a new apartment, and as it happens, my neighbor is moving out next month.”
complex
“The professor mentioned a rare manuscript during the lecture, and as it happens, I had already spent the morning studying that very text in the library.”
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