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Phrase(s): From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step.
Prov. Something grand can easily become very funny. • Bob, I don’t think you should include a bowl of breakfast cereal in your still-life painting. From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step. • The production of Macbeth went from the sublime to the ridiculous when Lady Macbeth came onstage in an old army uniform.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs