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fallen angel

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a fallen angel
a company or sports team that was successful in the past but is not successful now. Derby County were this season's fallen angels, being sent into the Second Division after losing all their matches. (usually plural)
See also: angel, fallen

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It was black as night, and on it were written, in the red flaming letters which are the handwriting of the fallen angel, 'Without pity and without remorse.
Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.
I know this much, that you did not go out to honest work, but went away with a rich man, Rogojin, in order to pose as a fallen angel.
 
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