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fall from grace en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The loss of one's social position, prestige, status, power, etc.
   • But the row highlighted the fall from grace of the ethnically diverse women Sarkozy once promoted but later cast aside, who are now rebelling. The former young sports minister, Rama Yade, outspoken and hugely popular, has not only quit the government: she has left Sarkozy's party. 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2023:

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fall from grace en · VERB

Meanings

1. To lose God's favour through sins or wrongdoings.
2. (figuratively, idiomatic) To fall from one's current social position to something lower, to lose one's prestige, status or power.
   • The cyclist fell from grace because of steroids and lies.
   • The row started over who will run for parliament in a wealthy rightwing constituency on the left bank in Paris, a safe seat for Sarkozy's ruling UMP. Dati is already a local mayor in the neighbourhood, a job felt to have been handed to her on a plate when she was a Sarkozy favourite. She has since fallen from grace, and when she left government she took a European parliament seat, considered a consolation prize. 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2023:
   • His father fell from grace with the emperor.

Forms

Relateds

fallen angel · there but for the grace of God go I

Translations (14)

pl wypaść z łask (to fall from one's current social position to something lower) · fr tomber en disgrâce (to fall from one's current social position to something lower) · es caer en desgracia (to fall from one's current social position to something lower) · fi menettää suosionsa (to fall from one's current social position to something lower) · ko 신임을 잃다 (to fall from one's current social position to something lower) · ko 파직하다 (to fall from one's current social position to something lower) · fi joutua epäsuosioon (to fall from one's current social position to something lower) · de in Ungnade fallen (to fall from one's current social position to something lower) · pt cair em desgraça (to fall from one's current social position to something lower) · ca caure en desgràcia (to fall from one's current social position to something lower) · pl wypadać z łask (to fall from one's current social position to something lower) · de aus der Gnade fallen (to fall from one's current social position to something lower) · ru впасть в неми́лость (to fall from one's current social position to something lower) · it cadere in disgrazia (to fall from one's current social position to something lower)