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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come to grief

Two oilmen would come to grief, more or less, in the 1920s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

And, like other presidents who mistook their mandate, his administration has come to grief.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2021

To the despair of their image-makers, some politicians' attempts to forge a bond with ordinary folk often come to grief.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2015

A widow who works as a nurse practitioner, she has also come to grief by a regrettable misstep.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014

The rest could run away and come to grief as they might.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams