be brought to grief

English-Turkish Translation

  1. (a) felakete uğramak, ıstıraba duçar olmak, belasını bulmak.
    She rode fast down the hill but came
    to grief and fell. (b) başarısızlığa/akamete/husrana uğramak,
    mec. suya düşmek.
    Although he worked hard, his plan came to grief.
English-Turkish translations from the Atalay Dictionary, First Edition