Synonyms

fall from grace

Idioms

Experience reduced status or prestige, cease to be held in favor, as in The whole department has fallen from grace and may well be dissolved entirely. This expression originally alluded to losing the favor of God. Today it is also used more loosely, as in the example. [Late 1300s]

Example Sentences

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It’s a soft landing for his fall from grace.

From Salon

None of that implies the dollar will suddenly fall from grace, abandoned in a wave of panic selling.

From Barron's

Similar events worldwide have dovetailed with the narrative landscape of the musical, which centers on the dictator’s wife, Imelda Marcos, her rise to power and her fall from grace.

From Los Angeles Times

So it's an extraordinary fall from grace for its sequel to have got zero.

From BBC

Royalty’s fall from grace was not a fall from fashion.

From The Wall Street Journal

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