come to grief• But out of sight at the other end of the course, Mr Hill had also come to grief.• She'd come to grief acting like that, but not from him.• This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence.• Far from remaining a hero, he came to grief.• The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief, and it is not altogethersurprising that it does.• When it comes to that interestingpastime, most members of most speciescome to grief.• Then might not the rotting stump of the tree split under their weight and they come to grief?