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Progress has a return policy, and your habits just used it.
means To fall back into old bad habits or a worse state after having improved or reformed.
from A straightforward compound of 'back' and 'slide,' first put to moral and religious use in the 1500s — notably in Bible translations — to describe a believer sliding backward from faith or virtue, the way a foot slides backward on muddy ground instead of stepping forward.
- origin era
- popular in 17th-century religious self-improvement sermons
- gym version
- muscle memory fades faster than the motivation did
- recovery term
- relapse's gentler cousin, same destination though