English

Adverb

as it happens ‎(not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) By coincidence

   I have my guitar with me in the car, as it happens. I'll go and get it.

   A. "You won't know Paris, I suppose." B. As it happens, I went to university there!

   • 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:

     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...

Usage notes

• Often used to introduce a statement which contradicts a previous statement.

Translations

Alternative forms

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