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[missdaredevil]

The plan has come to *fail*.
Is *fail* commonly used as a noun or is that just wrong grammar?

Thanks

[Mister Micawber]

Fail is not a noun, it is a verb. The idiomatic come to + verb means attain the state/condition: The plan has failed ('attained failure').
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