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more by accident than design
idiom
because of luck and not because of skill or organization: 与其说是人为还不如说因为幸运；由于机缘巧合而非有意安排
The play was a success more by accident than design.这部剧的成功与其说是演得好，还不如说是运气好。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Chance and randomness
accident
accident of birth
aleatory
arbitrarily
arbitrariness
coincidence
crapshoot
even money
fluke
fluky
long shot
luck
luck into something
more by luck than judgmentidiom
non-purposive
randomness
serendipitous
serendipitously
sortition
stumble into something
Examples of more by accident than design
more by accident than design
In this regard, we use the term 'chance' because some individuals find themselves with employers who provide good occupational schemes morebyaccidentthandesign.
It is pleasing, though morebyaccidentthandesign, that these papers cover nearly the whole development process: synthesis, transformation, analysis and debugging.
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