stumble into (someone or something)
stumble into (someone or something)
1. To collide with someone or something after tripping or walking unsteadily. Someone pushed me and I ended up stumbling right into the principal. I could tell John was drunk by the way he was stumbling into things on the way to the bathroom.
2. To enter some place while or as a result of tripping or walking unsteadily. I lost my balance and accidentally stumbled into the wrong classroom. A bumbling stagehand stumbled into the scene right in the middle of the play.
3. To become involved or embroiled with something casually, accidentally, or by chance. The accountant stumbled into the world of organized crime after being contracted by a mob boss to file his taxes. I actually stumbled into this job when I happened to get chatting with the company's CEO at a café a few years back.
4. To encounter or happen upon someone by accident or chance. I stumbled into Jack at the mall yesterday. It sounds like he's doing really well! The burglar stumbled right into a police officer after sneaking out of the house he had just robbed.
See also: stumble
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
stumble into someone or something
1. to trip and lurch into someone or something. Not seeing the brick in the path, Carl tripped and stumbled into Alice. Jamie stumbled into the wall.
2. Go to stumble across someone or something.
See also: stumble
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey
- accompany on a journey
- be/have done with somebody/something
- be in line with (someone or something)
- better of
- (someone or something) promises well
- begin with
- begin with (someone or something)
- be out of (one's) league
- be out of somebody's league