come to grief

Idioms  

1. Meet with disaster or failure. For example, The icy runway caused at least one light plane to come to grief. [Mid-1800s]

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Example Sentences

The Republican party has come to grief in recent years because its leaders promised their base that if given congressional majorities as well as the White House they would usher in a rightwing utopia.

From The Guardian

And going on a three-hour training track and I’ve come to grief, big time.

From The Guardian

In in our conversation he told me that he did not sort of come to grief in the same way that I have with the same kind of loss.

From The New Yorker

Great players have come to grief here.

From The New Yorker

Numerous aides have come to grief — Scott Pruitt, Ryan Zinke, Tom Price, Ronny Jackson — after discovering they couldn’t get away with stuff the boss does.

From Washington Post