come to grief
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come to grief (third-person singular simple present comes to grief, present participle coming to grief, simple past came to grief, past participle come to grief)
- (idiomatic) To suffer a disastrous outcome.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- These elves and half-elves and wizards, they would come to grief perhaps.
- 1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 170:
- Immediately beyond Churn Lane the climb begins at 1 in 78, steepening to 1 in 66. Speed soon falls and a number of heavy hop-pickers' specials have come to grief here.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
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to have a disastrous outcome
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