come to grief
• have an accident; meet with disaster.
• "many a ship has come to grief along this shore"
Similar:
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,
come unstuck,
come a cropper,
flop,
fizzle out,
go phut,
go down like a lead balloon,
bomb,
go to the wall,
bite the dust,
go pear-shaped,
tank,