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Phrase(s): fall from grace
1. Lit. to sin and get on the wrong side of God. (A Christian concept.) • It was either fall from grace or starve from lack of money. That’s how thieves are made. • Given the choice between falling from grace and starving, few people choose to starve. 2. Fig. to do something wrong and get in trouble with someone other than God. • I hear that Ted lost the Wilson contract and has fallen from grace with the boss. • The accounting firm has fallen from grace and the board is looking for a new one.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Experience reduced status or prestige, cease to be held in favor, as in The whole department has fallen from grace and may well be dissolved entirely. This expression originally alluded to losing the favor of God. Today it is Also used more loosely, as in the example. [Late 1300s]
American Heritage Idioms