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

Thank goodness she was assigned this case; she worked in this very U.S. attorney’s office for years, so she understands what a fall from grace this is.

From Slate ● May 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

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