as it happens

alternative as it happened · alternative as it so happens · alternative it so happens · alternative it just so happens

1. idiomaticnot comparableBy coincidence, incidentally.

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

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   ―“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...

   2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian