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come_to_grief
come to grief
English
Verb
come to grief (third-person singular simple present comes to grief, present participle coming to grief, simple past and past participle came to grief)
- (idiomatic) To have a disastrous outcome.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- These elves and half-elves and wizards, they would come to grief perhaps.
- J. R. R. Tolkien