as good luck would have it

as good luck would have it
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Origin
From Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
FALSTAFF: You shall hear. As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page; gives intelligence of Ford's approach; and, in her invention and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

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