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asithappens (notcomparable)

1. (idiomatic) Bycoincidence,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!”

   • 2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, inThe Guardian:

     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...

• Often used to introduce a statement whichcontradicts a previous statement.

• as it happened
• as it so happens
• it so happens
• it just so happens

• peasantship

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