Definition

1. Phrase:
   • As if by an arrangement of fate; by some twist of fate: Expresses the idea that an event, often a chance meeting or occurrence, seems so coincidental or fortuitous that it appears preordained or fated to happen.

Usage Examples

• Phrase:
  • Run rủi cho họ gặp nhau. (They happened to meet each other again as by an arrangement of fate.)
  • Run rủi mà tôi tìm được chiếc nhẫn đã mất. (By some twist of fate, I found the lost ring.)

Advanced Usage

• The phrase is used to reflect on serendipitous or remarkably coincidental events, often with a sense of wonder or inevitability. It is typically placed at the beginning of a clause to set the scene for the unexpected event.

Variants and Related Words

• Ngẫu nhiên (adj): random, accidental. (Less poetic, focuses on chance without the connotation of fate.)
• Tình cờ (adv): by chance, coincidentally. (A more common, neutral term for accidental occurrences.)

Synonyms

• As fate would have it: By a seemingly predetermined chance.
• Fortuitously: Happening by a lucky chance.
• Serendipitously: Occurring or discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

Related Idioms

• Hữu duyên thiên lý năng tương ngộ: (Literally: If predestined, one can meet from a thousand miles away.) A proverb expressing that fate brings people together.
  • Đúng là hữu duyên thiên lý năng tương ngộ, run rủi chúng tôi lại cùng chuyến bay. (It's true that if predestined you can meet from afar; as fate would have it, we were on the same flight.)

1. As by an arrangenment of fate
   • Run rủi cho họ gặp nhau
     They happened to meet each other again as by an arrangement of fate