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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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As luck would have it,

"As luck would have it, this place used to be called the torture department store."
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I do not know the meaning of 'would have it' in As luck would have it..
  

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Suppose that luck could live like a person. Then luck would want things to be certain ways. When I get things my way, I get those things as I would have them, they way I want them.

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  • Suppose that luck could live like a person.
  • Then luck would want things to be certain ways.
  • When I get things my way, I get those things as I would have them, they way I want them.
  • In the same way, luck gets things as it (luck) would have them, if it could order things according to its desires.
  • " I won a million dollars.
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Suppose that luck could live like a person. Then luck would want things to be certain ways. When I get things my way, I get those things as I would have them, they way I want them. In the same way, luck gets things as it (luck) would have them, if it could order things according to its desires.

The idiomatic expression means "this is the way things turned out."

I won a million do
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AnonymousI do not know the meaning of 'would have it' in As luck would have it.
Probably "would (want to) make it be", literally. But less literally, "as luck would have it" is "as it turns out" or "as it happens (by chance)", whether "fortunately" or "unfortunately".

CJ
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