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happy chance

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Noun1.happy chancehappy chance - an unexpected piece of good luck; "he finally got his big break"
break, good luck
chance event, fortuity, accident, stroke - anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity"


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Comrades of the thunder and companions of death, I cannot but regard it as singularly fortunate that we who by conviction and sympathy are designated by nature as the champions of that fairest of her products, the white metal, should also, by a happy chance, be engaged mostly in the business of mining it.
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It was not art, but happy chance, that led the poets in search of subjects to impress the tragic quality upon their plots.
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