fall from grace

v. lose popularity, lose favor

lose favor; go back into sin

To fall from grace is an idiom referring to a loss of status, respect, or prestige. It may also refer to:The biblical fall from grace, from which the idiom originated
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Verb
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"
(hypernym) misbehave, misconduct, misdemean

lose approval The politician fell from grace with the public over the money scandal.

Synonyms and related words:
apostasy, atheism, backslide, backsliding, desertion, fall, fall again into, fall back, fall of Adam, fall of man, have a relapse, impiety, impiousness, irreligion, irreverence, lapse, lapse back, lapse from grace, recidivate, recidivation, recidivism, recreancy, recur to, regress, relapse, return to, revert, revert to, sin of Adam, sink back, slide back, slip back, undutifulness, yield again to