a widow and orphans

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a widow and orphans

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a. If you go ahead with this stupid plan, you might turn your wife and kids into a widow and orphans.

Is this sentence grammatically correct?

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Re: a widow and orphans

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Not felicitously phrased, but grammatical.
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