The phrase 'A chance meeting'

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The phrase 'A chance meeting'

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It's my understanding that describing a meeting with the adjective form of chance is grammatically correct. It implies that the meeting was unexpected and unplanned. Is that what it conveys to you or have you never heard this phrasing?
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Never heard of this phrase.
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I have heard this used and "unexpected and unplanned" sounds about right. It might also depend on context.
"...I'd discuss the holy books with the learned man...and that would be the sweetest thing of all...would it foil some vast, eternal plan..." Hamick Fiddler on the Roof

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