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fall from grace

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  1. revert back to bad behavior after a period of good behavior
    The children fell from grace when they asked for several helpings of dessert

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  • SNOW (voice-over): With his wife Silda by his side, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, the man once known as Mr. Clean, addressed his fall from grace. CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2008
  • Callers jammed the switchboards of radio stations to express their shock at the fall from grace of a national hero after the news broke yesterday morning.
  • UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: With his wife Silda by his side, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, the man once known as Mr. Clean, addressed his fall from grace. CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2008
  • But it suffered a spectacular fall from grace when about £2bn of its funds ran into severe trouble as equity markets plunged.
  • A fall from grace does not take much: a drunken tumble, a night out with the wrong man, an inadvertent outburst, a struggle with dependency.
  • Whatever the ultimate reason for the Dymaxion's fall from grace, Fuller's magnificently optimistic fusion of architecture and invention never did fly? either from showrooms or in skies above America. Norman Foster's back-to-front car
  • The biography explains the circumstances surrounding her fall from grace.
  • The Finance Minister's fall from grace gave the tabloid press great satisfaction.
  • He was the head of the intelligence service until his fall from grace.
  • Burdened by addiction and avarice, Fatty's rise to stardom soon became a fall from grace.
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