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Spanish
Etymology
Literally, “to fall in disgrace”.
Verb
caer en desgracia (first-person singular present caigo en desgracia, first-person singular preterite caí en desgracia, past participle caído en desgracia)
- (figuratively, idiomatic) to fall from grace
1923, Julio Cejador y Frauca, Frascología o estilística castellana: Chabeta-Llover, page 439:Toda la vida de los tales es un continuo recato de caer en desgracia y ser luego despedidos.- All of the life of the such is a continuous fear of falling from grace and then being laid off.
2010, Gonzalo Brujó, En clave de marcas, Editorial Almuzara, →ISBN:Incluso marcas que un día tuvieron éxito pueden caer en desgracia.- Even brands that one day had success can fall from grace.
1996, William B. Taylor, Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-century Mexico, El Colegio de Michoacán A.C., →ISBN, page 560:[…] aunque se arriesgaron a caer en desgracia o aumentar considerablemente su influencia local.- although they risk falling from grace or considerably increasing their local influence.
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