as luck may have it
- idiom
- Informal
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por suerte
- We missed our train, but as luck may have it, the next one came just five minutes later.
Examples
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She was late for the meeting, but as luck may have it, it started late too.
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I found a $100 bill on the street, as luck may have it!
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As luck may have it, my friend happened to be driving by just when I needed a ride.
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As luck may have it, the store was still open when we arrived late at night.
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As luck may have it, my friend happened to be driving by just when I needed a ride.
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As luck may have it, the store was still open when we arrived late at night.
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As luck may have it, we missed our train, but the next one came just five minutes later.
Synonyms
425
2.5
By good luck, things turn out well
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1.0
By good chance in a way that turns out well
7
5.4
Happens by chance in a lucky, helpful way
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7.5
By lucky chance when something happens unexpectedly
Antonyms
How Lucky
Surface Forms
Morphology
The presence of 'luck' and the modal construction 'may have it' signals that the phrase concerns chance or fortune, so a learner who knows the words can partly infer that something happened by chance. However, the fixed phrasing functions as an idiomatic discourse comment (similar to 'as luck would have it') and its exact pragmatic use and syntax are not fully predictable from the constituents, so full comprehension typically requires prior exposure.
Etymology
As luck may have it imagines luck as a little helper or person who can make things happen. So when we say as luck may have it, we mean something happened 'by chance', and we use it to say a good or bad thing happened.