"come to grief" meaning in English

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      "form": "came to grief",
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        {
          "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien\nThese elves and half-elves and wizards, they would come to grief perhaps."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 170:",
          "text": "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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        "To suffer a disastrous outcome."
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        "(idiomatic) To suffer a disastrous outcome."
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to have a disastrous outcome",
          "word": "mennä pahasti pieleen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to have a disastrous outcome",
          "word": "epäonnistua pahasti"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to have a disastrous outcome",
          "word": "exploser en vol"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to have a disastrous outcome",
          "word": "pórul jár"
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        {
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          "sense": "to have a disastrous outcome",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "lec w gruzach"
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to have a disastrous outcome",
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            "perfective"
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          "word": "legnąć w gruzach"
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  "word": "come to grief"
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      "form": "came to grief",
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        "To suffer a disastrous outcome."
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        "(idiomatic) To suffer a disastrous outcome."
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to have a disastrous outcome",
      "word": "mennä pahasti pieleen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to have a disastrous outcome",
      "word": "epäonnistua pahasti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to have a disastrous outcome",
      "word": "exploser en vol"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to have a disastrous outcome",
      "word": "pórul jár"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to have a disastrous outcome",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "lec w gruzach"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to have a disastrous outcome",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
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      "word": "legnąć w gruzach"
    }
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  "word": "come to grief"
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