come to no good

Idioms  

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

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Example Sentences

Mrs. Hubble shook her head, and contemplating me with a mournful presentiment that I should come to no good, asked, “Why is it that the young are never grateful?”

From Literature

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

That kinda brain wringing don't come to no good.

From Literature

Even Louis Austin, Fuller’s behind-the-scenes supporter and father figure, attacked the radical, nationalist wing of the Black Power movement, judging it to be "no better than the Ku Klux Klan,” and predicted that “the call for black or Negro separatism from the mainstream of American life is a foundation and an objective that within itself is certain to come to no good end."

From Literature

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 Literature