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come to grief

verb

Definitions

  1. To suffer a disastrous outcome.

    • J. R. R. Tolkien These elves and half-elves and wizards, they would come to grief perhaps.
    • Immediately beyond Churn Lane the climb begins at 1 in 78, steepening to 1 in 66. Speed soon falls and a number of heavy hop-pickers' specials have come to grief here.

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