come to grief

come to grief
Meaning: fail, meet with disaster or failure.
Example: It would be a great pity to see all that sincere work come to grief.

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read the riot act

Meaning: warning someone by scolding them to improve their behavior

Example: She'd been bearing bad behavior from her employee and thought it was time to read him the riot act. Read on

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