tumble on

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === tumble on (third-person singular simple present tumbles on, present participle tumbling on, simple past and past participle tumbled on) (transitive, idiomatic) To accidentally encounter (a person or situation). 1931, E. Phillips Oppenheim, “What Sir Stephen Forgot” in Sinners Beware, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1932, p. 158, (first published as “In the Strongroom” in Collier’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 to tumble on you like this! Why, we only landed here two minutes ago. I call this fine.” ==== Synonyms ==== chance upon happen upon stumble across