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Fall from grace   /fɔl frəm greɪs/   Listen
Fall from grace

verb
1.
Revert back to bad behavior after a period of good behavior.





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"Fall from grace" Quotes from Famous Books



... time before he slept; and the sleep, when it came, was fitful. Perhaps he had brooded too much over his fall from grace. As the night wore on he was not sure, half the time, whether he was dreaming or awake. And so eventful were his slumbers, and so real the events therein, that his dreams and his waking moments became painfully intermingled. ...
— The Pines of Lory • John Ames Mitchell


Words linked to "Fall from grace" :   misdemean, misconduct, misbehave


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