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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fall from grace

Alphabet was once a cash-flow machine, but it’s seeing a fall from grace.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

All major U.S. indexes ended the day in the green, despite a historic fall from grace for one member of the Dow industrials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

For hundreds of years, readers have interpreted Satan's descent in the Divine Comedy as a spiritual fall from grace.

From Science Daily ● May 11, 2026

The former duchess could also have her freedom of the City of York stripped next week, in a further fall from grace.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

It had brought back memories of his son, and the old scandal, and his fall from grace at the Ministry.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling