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happen along en · VERB
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(idiomatic, intransitive) To arrive by chance; to occur by happenstance.
"Now, if a rattling good earthquake were to happen along, you might awake in the morning to find yourself on an island, or even under water."
1892, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 1, in The Golden Fleece:"Well, you're the one who's always telling me not to leave my purse in the cart, and that's probably what that woman had done, and someone happened along and just took it."
2001, Linwood Barclay, Bad Move, →ISBN, page 148:Novae, or new stars, are always happening along.
1928 April 9, “Science: Heavenly Hubbub”, in Time:"[W]e can't 'spect a cyclone to happen along and take us to the Emerald City now."
1909, L. Frank Baum, chapter 11, in The Road to Oz:
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