come to grief

come to grief  {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.
Categories: disappointment verb
Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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