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

Overall, Franco expresses being thankful for his fall from grace, saying, “Being told you’re bad is painful. But ultimately, that’s kind of what I needed to just stop going the way I was going.”

From Salon

Mr Combs’s fall from grace has been swift, with an extensive federal criminal case charging him in a sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.

From BBC

The Book of Genesis doubled down not long after tagging biblical Eve as the agent of the fall from grace in the Garden of Eden.

From Los Angeles Times

As Roberts describes in cringey detail in the book, his fall from grace came a little bit at a time, then all at once.

From Los Angeles Times

Before his fall from grace, he co-founded the film studio, Miramax which produced award-winning films like Pulp Fiction and Shakespeare in Love.

From BBC