Meanings
From fetch + and + carry, originally a reference to a trained dog fetching and conveying an object back to its master:[1] see, for example, William Shakespeare’s play The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III, scene i (spelling modernized): “She hath more qualities than a water-spaniel, […] She can fetch and carry: why a horse can do no more; nay, a horse cannot fetch, but only carry, therefore is she better than a jade.”[2]
To serve obsequiously. To carry gossip, news, etc., from one person to another; to bear tales, to gossip.
To serve obsequiously.
To carry gossip, news, etc., from one person to another; to bear tales, to gossip.
To carry or convey (gossip, news, etc.) from one person to another; to bear (tales).
