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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]Advertisement
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