as it happens en · ADV
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic, not-comparable) By coincidence, incidentally.
I have my guitar with me in the car, as it happens. I’ll go and get it.
―“You won’t know Paris, I suppose.” ―“As it happens, I went to university there!”
In the second volume of his autobiography, he writes of a journey up the Padma by paddle steamer (built, as it happens, on the river outside my window), where the dry season had exposed many sandbanks...
2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:
Forms
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| as it happened | alternative | lexicographic | |
| it just so happens | alternative | lexicographic | |
| as it so happens | alternative | lexicographic | |
| it so happens | alternative | lexicographic |
Translations (21)
cmn 正好 (by coincidence) · fr il se trouve (by coincidence) · pt por acaso (by coincidence) · hu történetesen (by coincidence) · ru как ра́з (by coincidence) · es dar la casualidad (by coincidence) · hu véletlenül (by coincidence) · ru ме́жду про́чим (by coincidence) · pt por um acaso (by coincidence) · cmn 正巧 (by coincidence) · ru ока́зывается (by coincidence) · it guarda caso (by coincidence) · fi sattumalta (by coincidence) · es hacer/querer la casualidad (by coincidence) · nl toevallig (by coincidence) · ru де́ло в то́м, что (by coincidence) · es la casualidad hacer/querer (by coincidence) · cs náhodou (by coincidence) · es sin ir más lejos (by coincidence) · hu éppenséggel (by coincidence) · pl tak się składa (by coincidence)