happen along | Idiomator

Meaning: (intransitive,idiomatic)Toarrivebychance; tooccurbyhappenstance.1892,Julian Hawthorne, chapter 1, inThe Golden Fleece:"Now, if a rattling good earthquake were tohappen along, you might awake in the morning to find yourself on an island, or even under water."1909,L. Frank Baum, chapter 11, inThe Road to Oz:"[W]e can't 'spect a cyclone tohappen alongand take us to the Emerald City now."1928April 9, “Science: Heavenly Hubbub”, inTime:Novae, or new stars, are alwayshappening along.2001,Linwood Barclay,Bad Move‎[1],→ISBN, page148:"Well, you're the one who's always telling me not to leave my purse in the cart, and that's probably what that woman had done, and someonehappened alongand just took it."

Examples:

EN: Then you can happen along and she won't be any the wiser.
ES: Entonces podrá pasar y ella no se dará cuenta.
EN: I didn't exactly happen along, sir.
ES: Oh, el bueno de Mac.
EN: I didn't happen along.
ES: No pasaba por aquí.
EN: We didn't happen along, ma'am.
ES: No fue por azar, senora.
EN: But if the right boss should happen along...
ES: Pero si encuentro un buen jefe...
EN: and take back with them any mortal who might happen along.
ES: y tomar por sorpresa a un mortal, que se atraviese en su camino.
EN: But if there should happen along a highly attractive individual... with sufficient means....
ES: Pero si llegara un individuo extremadamente apuesto... con un buen pasar...
EN: Yeah. Well, actually, we didn't just happen along.
ES: Bueno, de hecho, no pasábamos por aquí solamente.
EN: I'll shoot any wild hoops that happen along.
ES: ¿Qué?
EN: You just needed someone to happen along.
ES: Incluso me estás callando. Lo siento. No fue mi intención herirte.
EN: Anyone could happen along.
ES: Cualquiera podría venir.
EN: Most sprains happen along the shaft, but yours seems to be pretty minor.
ES: Se suele fracturar el cuerpo peneano. Pero lo suyo parece insignificante.
EN: It's anything that can happen along the way.
ES: Es todo lo que puede ocurrir en el camino.
EN: I tend to move around a lot, and things just happen along the way.
ES: Me muevo mucho y pasan cosas en el camino.
EN: It's rare to see one But they happen along
ES: # Eso algunas veces pasa Pero raramente se ven #

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