FETCH AND CARRY meaning: Retrieve and transport items obediently

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fetch and carry: Merriam-Webster
fetch and carry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
fetch and carry: Collins English Dictionary
fetch and carry: Wiktionary
fetch and carry: Dictionary.com
fetch and carry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fetch and carry)

▸ verb:  (intransitive)
▸ verb:  To serve obsequiously.
▸ verb:  (dated) To carry gossip, news, etc., from one person to another; to bear tales, to gossip.
▸ verb:  (transitive, dated) To carry or convey (gossip, news, etc.) from one person to another; to bear (tales).

Similar:

retrieve, fetch, carry, haul, freight, catch, fetch up, CAIR, Carrie, hump, more...

Opposite:

retrieve, bring back, return, collect, withdraw

Phrases:

to fetch and carry, more...

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