stroke of luck

In a bizarre stroke of luck, firefighters could access the well on his property only because the new concrete driveway had just been finished.

"Covid restrictions were a stroke of luck for this defendant in pursuing the deception that her parents were still alive," the prosecutor added.

In a stroke of luck, by the time Biden dropped out, they had already started work on a documentary about the vice presidential contenders — an idea “Frontline” executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath proposed because of the advanced age of the likely presidential nominees.

Unless Tester pulls a Susan Collins and wildly overperforms his polling, Democrats would need a stroke of luck in “reach” Senate battlegrounds like Florida or Texas to make up for the loss.

Turning to North Korea’s recent closer ties with Russia, Mr Ri says the Ukraine war had been a stroke of luck for Pyongyang.