{v. phr.} To have a bad accident or disappointment; meet trouble or ruin; end badly; wreck; fail. * /Bill came to grief learning to drive a car./ * /Nick's hopes for a new house came to grief when the house he was building burned down./ * /The fishing boat came to grief off Cape Cod./
COME TO GRIEF
Meaning of COME TO GRIEF in English
Dictionary of English idioms . Словарь английских идиом. 2012