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| as luck would have it | по счастливому совпадению (While strolling around the property, they suddenly were taken aback when they spotted what appeared to be a little girl in the uppermost window of the medieval building. "I remember thinking 'did we really just see that?,'" Newport later recalled, marveling that "in a blink, she was gone." As luck would have it, she happened to be taking pictures of the castle when the strange sighting occurred and so she checked her phone to see if it might have captured the curious observer that she thought she had noticed.  coasttocoastam.com ART Vancouver) |
| as luck would have it | на счастье (In a worrisome incident that unfolded in the skies over England, a Boeing 737 nearly collided with an unidentified flying object that came within ten feet of the airliner. (...) Chillingly, the report goes on to state that "the object appeared without warning and there was no time to act." As luck would have it, the airliner managed to avoid colliding with the UFO, which passed the craft by a mere 10 feet. coasttocoastam.com ART Vancouver) |
| better luck next time | в следующий раз повезёт |
| sheer luck | чистое везение (Andy Hackett reportedly snagged the remarkable creature while fishing at a lake in Champagne, France earlier this month. (...) Crediting the catch to "sheer luck," Hackett posed for a few photos with The Carrot before, commendably, releasing the giant goldfish back into the lake. coasttocoastam.com ART Vancouver) |
