to arrive at a place by accident or without intending to go there
"'Look, we could scrabble round here like moles for days, then find some tunnel and crawl for days more only to fetch up at some dead end.
Get along down to the well wi' your sister and help her to fetch up water for the morning.
If you don't watch yourself next thing you'll fetch up dead and might take someone else with you into the bargain.
fetches up
fetching up
fetched up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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