fall from grace

Idioms  

1. 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]

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Example Sentences

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

It has been a dramatic fall from grace for one of United's most celebrated recent home-grown talents.

From BBC

Those segments are a reminder that another story is available, one that treats the women at the center of the case as sources of understanding, not just as evidence of someone else’s fall from grace.

From Salon

He fell from grace very quickly after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and was sent into exile in Hungary.

From BBC