happy accident

Lightning recalls an example of a happy accident in their music.

She says these roles have not been planned, but rather are a “happy accident.”

To me it has been a happy accident, and I like to think that I have helped a little in your splendid achievement.

He believed that this happy accident served to tell us how the universe had been created.

If it suits, it suits by a happy accident, as in the delightful sentimentality, Providence and the Guitar.

Failing in the happy accident of birth, the candidate for Beacon Hill honors must write a book.

It has not even one happy accident about it as a peg to hang its fame upon, like some writers' first novels.