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stumble across
Idioms and Phrases
Also, stumble on . Find by chance, discover or meet with unexpectedly. For example, When we were hiking up the mountain we stumbled across a few abandoned shepherd's huts , or At the flea market Alfred stumbled on a quite valuable old lithograph . This idiom uses stumble in the sense of “accidentally trip.” [Mid-1500s]Example Sentences
Remarkably few of these old-world venues remain in circulation — there are only a handful in America — although they are much revered in Europe, where it is much more common to stumble across one.
“I often fantasized that one day my dad would stumble across my face on a magazine cover and be overcome with regret for not getting to know such a wonderful girl,” writes Ione Skye.
The young guard appears to have had the misfortune to stumble across an undercover Israeli operation, during which he was shot and killed.
Come May in Seattle, you can’t help but stumble across flowers bursting out of every yard.
In response to a comment, Robinson said he didn't stumble across the image.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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