fall from grace
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6.6
- idiom
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caída en desgracia
- After the scandal, her career suffered a significant fall from grace that she struggled to recover from.
What are your thoughts on Intel's fall from grace?
- What are your thoughts on Intel's fall from grace?
- We see it in these big scandals when these big fancy schmancy types have a great big fall from grace.
- And it's not just big falls from grace, losing a fortune or losing a big company or being in a public scandal.
- If you are lucky, you will be there the day that the grandiose narcissistic colleague or the grandiose narcissistic boss has their fall from grace.
- Welcome back to the Megyn Kelly show, A royal fall from grace and how for Britain's Prince Andrew, as the civil sex assault case against him is allowed to move forward.
- So it's a huge fall from grace.
Examples
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But Urdangarn's fall from grace is likely not yet complete.
Blog text (12) -
The decline in faith in empiricism was symptomatic of a more general fall from grace for the natural sciences.
Academic text (2016) -
Sorry to hear about your fall from grace.
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How else are we to explain our fall from grace?
Fiction book (1990) -
It's a stunning fall from grace for a man brought out from the shadows by Captain America.
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What a fall from grace for Linda Davis.
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Today's loss is the final blow in this very public fall from grace.
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"The corporation has fallen from grace in the eyes of both Japanese retailers and consumers."
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My own fall from grace was not as abrupt as either of my siblings.
Fiction book (2002) -
We all know about Paterno's breathtaking fall from grace, thanks to his role in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
Blog text (26)
Synonyms
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3.7
Loss of respect or honor after doing something shameful
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5.1
A sudden loss of power or status caused by a mistake
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8.8
A loss of innocence through wrong action
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5.1
Shame and loss of respect after bad actions
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7.5
Making a person or thing less respected and less valued
A loss of respect that makes people think less of someone
A state of having lost moral or spiritual goodness
How Disgraced
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'loss of status or favor' is directly derivable from combining 'fall' (a descent) + 'from' (indicating origin) + 'grace' (favor/forgiveness); the image of descending from a state of grace maps clearly onto losing respect or status. Although slightly figurative, this composition follows a common metaphorical pattern found across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would very likely infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Fall from grace (noun) may come from the same image of a person dropping out of a high place of grace, which shows them losing honor and position. That's why the noun means 'the loss of status or respect'.