Meaning of as it happens | Babel Free
Definitions
By coincidence, incidentally.
idiomatic, not-comparable
Equivalents
Čeština
náhodou
Suomi
sattumalta
Français
il se trouve
Polski
tak się składa
Русский
дело в том, что
Examples
“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!””
“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...”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.