tumble to

phrasal verb

tumbled to; tumbling to; tumbles to

British, informal

: to understand or become aware of (something)

They didn't tumble to the seriousness of the problem.

Examples of tumble to in a Sentence

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Wrexham had tumbled to the lowest rungs of the English soccer system and was on the verge of financial collapse while the tiny working-class Welsh city the team calls home had also fallen on hard times, declining along with its soccer team. —Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024

As the officer holds her, onlookers attempt to pull the girl away, sending the two tumbling to the pavement, the video shows. —Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 3 June 2024

And in Crazy, Stupid, Love, a motley parade of men — Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, John Carroll Lynch, and Kevin Bacon — grab at one another’s necks and tumble to the ground in an awkward four-way scuffle concerning overlapping romantic entanglements. —Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024

Rubrik, the data management software maker backed by Microsoft, rose 16% during its debut but has since tumbled to $28.65 Friday, below its $32 IPO price. —Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 24 June 2024