Any idiom for this meaning? Appreciate any help!
Hi! I'm trying to find an idiom for an Arabic proverb by the meaning "you got what you wanted" as if by coincidence or naturally without effort. Anything in mind?
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" There is a similar one that goes "came up smelling like a rose", and although the vulgar setup is implied, it is not necessary to include it, and it is not therefore particularly vulgar. But these are a little different from what you want because they are more about turning failure into success by luck. You can say that a person "fell into it", not what they fell into in the previous paragraph but into the lucky strike.
- " There is a similar one that goes "came up smelling like a rose", and although the vulgar setup is implied, it is not necessary to include it, and it is not therefore particularly vulgar.
- But these are a little different from what you want because they are more about turning failure into success by luck.
- You can say that a person "fell into it", not what they fell into in the previous paragraph but into the lucky strike.
- The idea is something like they stumbled, and what they wanted was right there, when they would have walked past without seeing it if they hadn't stumbled.
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There is a vulgar one that goes something like "He fell down in s--t and came up covered in diamonds." There is a similar one that goes "came up smelling like a rose", and although the vulgar setup is implied, it is not necessary to include it, and it is not therefore particularly vulgar. But these are a little different from what you want because they are more about turning failure into succe
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