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fall from grace
Idioms and Phrases
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
The failure to become more diverse is a key component behind the franchise’s fall from grace, said Denhart.
More than a year after Majors’ conviction and fall from grace in Hollywood, it seems Jabbari’s disturbing allegations haven’t entirely fallen to the wayside.
That Klassen, whose century in Mumbai at the 2023 World Cup started England's fall from grace, has found form after missing the opening match with an elbow injury is a huge boost.
As a new play examines the motivations behind his malpractice, the BBC looks back at his fall from grace.
It has been an incredible fall from grace and left people trying to work out what has happened - and whether Guardiola can make it right.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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