HAPPY CHANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does happy chance mean? 

• HAPPY CHANCE (noun)
  The noun HAPPY CHANCE has 1 sense:

1. an unexpected piece of good luck

  Familiarity information: HAPPY CHANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAPPY CHANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unexpected piece of good luck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

break; good luck; happy chance

Context example:

he finally got his big break

Hypernyms ("happy chance" is a kind of...):

accident; chance event; fortuity; stroke (anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause)

 Context examples 

By a singular and happy chance, we are able to some extent to check what passed along this road during the night in question.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But for the happy chance of the gold stuffing, your suspicions would probably never have been aroused.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We have had a very painful incident at St. Luke’s, and really, but for the happy chance of your being in town, I should have been at a loss what to do.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)