stumble into sth
— phrasal verb with stumble uk/ˈstʌm.bəl/us/ˈstʌm.bəl/verb
to start doing something by chance, without having intended to do it:
He had stumbled into teaching English after he finished college.
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Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- export
- go ahead
- ground
- incipient
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick-start
- strike
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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