fall from grace

2 definitions found

fall from grace - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  fall from grace
      v 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"

fall from grace - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "fall from grace":
     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