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

Many in the party pointed to Donaldson's fall from grace undoubtedly having an impact when it came to knocking doors in the lead-up to polling day.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 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

There’s a lot more to Beyond Meat’s fall from grace than just falling sales and mounting losses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

Martin’s fall from grace has been swift but not particularly surprising.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2026

She began to associate with Ralph Myers, a white man with a badly disfigured face and lengthy criminal record who seemed to perfectly embody her fall from grace.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson