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idiomgracefall from gracewhen someone stops being liked, admired, or trusted, especially by people who employ them:Looking back, Somers is grateful for what happened - her fall from grace gave her the strength to take her career in a new direction.Brent has told associates that his fall from grace was the result of his opponents' dirty tactics.sb falls from grace: Grominsky was a film executive who had fallen from grace at one of the big studios a few years before. sb's/sth's saving gracea good quality that prevents someone or something from being completely bad or disappointing:The prison's saving grace is its educational programme that gives inmates a chance to stay out of jail in the future.These students never say a spontaneous word in class - their saving grace is that they approach all exercises with enthusiasm.
See:- a saving grace
- airs and graces
- be in (one's) good graces
- be in somebody's good graces
- be in someone's good graces
- by the grace of God
- coup de grâce
- fall from grace
- fall from grace, to
- good graces
- good graces, to be/get in one's
- grace (someone) with (one's) presence
- grace period
- grace with
- grace with (something)
- grace with presence
- graced with
- graced with (something)
- have the (good) grace to (do something)
- have the grace to do something
- in (one's) bad graces
- in (one's) good graces
- in good graces
- in someone's bad graces
- in someone's good graces
- in the bad graces of
- in the bad graces of (one)
- in the good graces of
- in the good graces of (someone)
- lapse from grace
- saving grace
- saving grace, a
- say grace
- state of grace
- There but for the grace of God
- there but for the grace of God (go I)
- there but for the grace of God go I
- Tuesday's child is full of grace
- with bad grace
- with good grace
- with good/bad grace
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