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come to grief

come to grief idiom

Meet with disaster or failure. For example, The icy runway caused at least one light plane to come to grief. [Mid-1800s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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