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come to grief idiom to suddenly fail in what you are doing, often because you have an accident: (常因事故而突然)惨遭失败;遭受不幸 The Italian champion was in second position when he came to grief on the third lap.跑到第三圈时,处在第二位置上的意大利卫冕冠军突然马失前蹄。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Failing and doing badly abjectly at-risk backbencher balls (something) up be on your beam endsidiom blow (someone/something) up bomb egg flog a dead horseidiom flop flub flunk out founder fray around/at the edgesidiom mess running on emptyidiom sclerotic screw screw (something) up sign someone's death warrant
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