as it happens

Language: en

Meaning: (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!”2014September 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...

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