tumble on

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Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic)Toaccidentallyencounter(a person or situation).1897,H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 17”, inThe Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London:Harper & Brothers Publishers,→OCLC,page148:“I’m luck to have fallen upon you, Kemp. You must help me. Fancytumbling onyou just now! I’m in a devilish scrape[…]”1910,Edith Wharton, “The Bolted Door”, inTales of Men and Ghosts‎[1], New York: Scribner, page69:“He murdered the man all right. Itumbled onthe truth by the merest accident, when I’d pretty nearly chucked the whole job.”1931,E. Phillips Oppenheim, “What Sir Stephen Forgot” inSinners Beware, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1932, p. 158, (first published as “In the Strongroom” inCollier’s Weekly, 11 April, 1931),[2]“If it isn’t Peter Hames?” he cried. “God bless my soul! They told us over in New York that you were living in these parts, but totumble onyou like this! Why, we only landed here two minutes ago. I call this fine.”

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