run rủi
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Definition
- 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.)
- As by an arrangenment of fate
- Run rủi cho họ gặp nhauThey happened to meet each other again as by an arrangement of fate