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come one's way

Idioms  
  1. Present itself, happen to, as in I sure hope another opportunity like that will come her way. [First half of 1900s]


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But what if the chances did not come one's way?

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

"Now understand me aright—I do not really mean all of them, but all of them who are lovable and happen to come one's way."

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

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