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41fetch up — PHRASAL VERB If you fetch up somewhere, you arrive there, especially when you have not planned to go there. [INFORMAL] [V P prep/adv] He spent the first few months on a walking and sketching tour, before fetching up in Dublin. Syn: end up …
42fetch — 1. obsolete a ghost Its appearance presaged imminent death fetching you away or long life. If the viewer did not die of fright, the alternative outcome was necessary, to avoid discrediting the phantom. 2. to abduct What was once… …
43fetch up — informal arrive or come to rest. → fetch …
44fetch — v 1. get, go for or after, go get, Hunting. retrieve; capture, seize, grasp, bag, snatch; grip, grab, lay hold of, collar; catch, entrap, ensnare. 2. bring, deliver, conduct, escort, usher, guide, lead; convey, transport, carry. 3. sell for, cost …
45Fetch — From Irish mythology, this is the apparition of a living person. It can usually be seen only by people with psychic powers or by a close friend or relative. The Fetch most often appears just before or at the moment of its death …
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46fetch — see a dog that will fetch a bone will carry a bone …
47fetch — [OE] Fetch comes from the Old English verb fetian ‘go and get’, which survived dialectally as fet well into the 19th century. In the late Old English period a variant feccan developed, from which we get the modern fête 216 English verb’s /ch/… …
48FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman — is a children s television series on PBS during the PBS Kids GO! block of educational programming. It is a game show/reality show parody that is hosted by an animated anthropomorphic dog who dispenses challenges to the show s real life… …
49fetch and carry — To perform humble services for another person • • • Main Entry: ↑fetch * * * fetch and carry phrase to do small simple jobs for someone such as bringing them things that they want Sid was helping in the kitchen, fetching and carrying. Thesaurus:… …
50Fetch (geography) — Fetch, often called the fetch length, is a term for the length of water over which a given wind has blown. It is used in geography and meteorology and is usually associated with coastal erosion. It plays a large part in longshore drift as… …
