Meanings
phrase
- When someone or something has lost its former popularity or acclaim.
Her star has fallen since then and she no longer has many followers.
1 more example
Levi-Strauss's star is fallen now, and such extreme statements seem, in retrospect, a little bit ridiculous.
2011, David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, page 117
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