come to grief

English

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Verb

come to grief (third-person singular simple present comes to grief, present participle coming to grief, simple past came to grief, past participle come 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.

Translations

to have a disastrous outcome

French: exploser en vol (fr)

Hungarian: pórul jár (hu)

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