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fall from grace: revert back to bad behavior after a period of good behavior; "The children fell from grace when they asked for several helpings of dessert"

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recidivate collapse

backslide collapse

slip back collapse

slide back collapse

sink back collapse

return to collapse

irreverence collapse: a disrespectful act; an irreverent mental attitude

fall through collapse: fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered"

revert collapse: undergo reversion, as in a mutation; go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"

atheism collapse: a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods; the doctrine or belief that there is no God

fall flat collapse

fall back collapse: retreat; fall backwards and down; have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat"

fall in collapse: to take one's place in a military formation or line; "Troops fall in!"

fall short collapse: fail to meet (expectations or standards)

alight upon collapse

relapse collapse: go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"

desertion collapse: withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless"

recidivism collapse: habitual relapse into crime

light upon collapse

run across collapse

come up against collapse

come upon collapse

regress collapse: the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence; get worse or fall back to a previous condition; go back to a statistical means

backsliding collapse: a failure to maintain a higher state

capsize collapse: overturn accidentally; "Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!"

crystallize collapse: cause to take on a definite and clear shape; "He tried to crystallize his thoughts"; assume crystalline form; become crystallized; cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form; "crystallize minerals"

take shape collapse

bite the dust collapse

cotton to collapse

rally round collapse

cadenza collapse: a brilliant solo passage occuring near the end of a piece of music

hit upon collapse

lag behind collapse

shape up collapse

fall upon collapse: find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"

touch bottom collapse

good deed collapse

good turn collapse

gather around collapse

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