fall from grace

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   revert back to bad behavior after a period of good behavior

   “The children fell from grace when they asked for several helpings of dessert”

   Broadermisbehave

Questions about fall from grace

What does fall from grace mean?

fall from grace means "revert back to bad behavior after a period of good behavior".

Is fall from grace a common word?

fall from grace is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.