as luck would have it

Idioms and Phrases

How things turned out, as it happened, as in As luck would have it he missed his train , or The check arrived in time, as luck would have it . The luck referred to can mean either good fortune or bad. [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

But as luck would have it, that summer Susan and her sister dropped by for a visit one day when they happened to be in the area.

From Los Angeles Times

Countries take it in turns to host its get togethers, and as luck would have it for Sir Keir, it is the UK’s go.

From BBC

But as luck would have it, his friend Marika Dalley Snider, an architectural historian at the University of Memphis, was working at the time on a digital reconstruction of the Karnak Temple in Egypt.

From New York Times

He called me back and said, “OK, as luck would have it, my wife came up with someone.”

From Los Angeles Times

Just then Sarah came into the kitchen and, as luck would have it, she was carrying four or five shopping bags and looking smug.

From Literature