as luck would have it
by chance:
We ran out of petrol on the way home, but as luck would have it, we were very near a garage.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Chance and randomness
- accident
- arbitrary
- be the luck of the draw idiom
- casual
- chance
- circumstance
- haphazard
- happen
- happenstance
- harum-scarum
- hit-and-miss
- lottery
- more by accident than design idiom
- more by luck than judgment idiom
- one in a million idiom
- postcode lottery
- pot luck
- serendipity
- stochastic
- stumble into sth
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