fetch up
verb
finally be or do something
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He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart
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he wound up being unemployed and living at home again
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END UP, finish up, turn up, appear, materialize, find itself;
informal wind up, show up.
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a tyrant fetched up by frightened capitalists — H.J.Muller
can fetch up anecdotes on almost any phase of straits historic lore — R.M.Dorson
2. : to make up (as leeway or lost time)
3. chiefly dialect : to bring up : raise, rear
she fetched up three boys
4. : to bring to a stop
he was fetched up short by a stop light
: to come to a standstill, stopping place, or result : end up : stop
fetched up suddenly against the wall
it was enough to make the voyage at all, and indeed he should have fetched up in Virginia — Alan Villiers
counted the wooden boxes … and fetched up with fourteen — Frederick Way
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fetch up
1. To recover
2. To come to a stop (informal)
3. To bring up, rear (eg children) (US)
4. To vomit (informal)
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to arrive at a place by accident or without intending to go there
Thesaurus: to arrive in a place, or to enter a place
synonym general words meaning to leave a place
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informal arrive or come to rest somewhere, typically by accident or unintentionally
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fetch up [phrasal verb]
chiefly Brit informal : to reach or come to a place,
condition, or situation that was not planned or expected
She traveled throughout Europe and eventually fetched up [=ended up] in Italy.
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(informal, especially BrE) to arrive somewhere without planning to
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And then, a few years later, he somehow fetched up in Rome.
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Useful english dictionary.
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