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Prepositional phrase
as luck would have it
- (idiomatic) By good fortune; fortunately or luckily.
- Synonym: as luck may have it
I didn't plan to stop there, but as (ill/good) luck would have it, they were open when I went by.
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:I said, “I’ll send the first sane soul I meet to keep you company.” As luck would have it, I never met one, — only kids, and a baker, who wouldn’t leave his cart, or take it with him either.
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