come to no good

Idioms  

1. see come to an end, def. 2.

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Example Sentences

In 1929, the Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen explored it in her novel “Passing”; her light-skinned female central characters come to no good end, done in by racism and good old-fashioned patriarchy.

From New York Times • May 29, 2020

“Niall will come to no good end,” my mother said a day after his letter came.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2018

“The masters of the short story come to no good end,” wrote Ernest Hemingway, in a bitterly prescient moment.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2017

"My mother said, 'Oh, you'll come to no good, you'll marry a musician and live in an attic'," she recalled.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2013

Her aunt had always prophesied that Elizabeth would come to no good end, proud, and vain, and foolish as she was, and having been allowed to run wild all her childhood days.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin