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单词 come to grief
释义

come to grief

Have an accident; meet with disaster: many a ship has come to grief along this shore...
  • Some car or truck has already come to grief at the roundabout and the trace of that accident is still clearly visible.
  • Many ships have come to grief on the Farne Islands, a few miles off the Northumberland coast.
  • Credit experts warned that dozens of families were already coming to grief in the ‘buy now, pay later’ culture.

Synonyms

fail, meet with failure, meet with disaster, miscarry, go wrong, go awry, fall through, fall flat, be frustrated, break down, collapse, founder, fold, come to nothing, come to naught
informal come unstuck, come a cropper, flop, fizzle out, go phut, go down like a lead balloon, bomb, go to the wall, bite the dust
British informal go pear-shaped
North American informal tank
See parent entry: grief
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