From failure to failure/ from bad to worse
In the question: He deteriorated in rank. His position went down and he became worse and worse. He deteriorated from one failure to another (delayed hearing a fall due to a push).
("For you have delivered my soul from death; have not my feet been hindered from walking before God in the light of the living?" - Let us lift up our hands, and so: "In a strange land they are humble and desolate. How the mighty are exiles from their land! They have not forgotten the name of their God in all their affliction, all of them holy. They have gone from one place to another, from evil to evil, three Years. They covered their faces with sackcloth, and they put on turbans" - Abarbanel Debarim HaKedama, and so: "And as Jerahmiel went from army to army in his law, so Zephaniah went from place to place in the counsel of her heart" - Abraham Mapu/ Ait Tsavoa, 48)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
הָלַךְ מִדֶּחִי אֶל דֶּחִי
Definition (Hebrew)
בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: הִתְדַּרְדֵּר בְּהַדְרָגָה. הָלַךְ מַצָּבוֹ וְנַעֲשָׂה גָּרוּעַ יוֹתֵר וְיוֹתֵר. הִדַּרְדֵּר אַט אַט מִכִּשָּׁלוֹן לְכִשָּׁלוֹן (דֶּחִי מַשְׁמָע נְפִילָה עֵקֶב דְּחִיפָה).
("כִּי הִצַּלְתָּ נַפְשִׁי מִמָּוֶת הֲלֹא רַגְלַי מִדֶּחִי לְהִתְהַלֵּךְ לִפְנֵי אֱלֹהִים בְּאוֹר הַחַיִּים"- תְּהִלִּים נוּ יָד, וְכֵן:"בְּאֶרֶץ נָכְרִיָּה שְׁפָלִים וְנִבְזִים. הֵמָּה הַגִּבּוֹרִים מֵאַרְצָם יָצְאוּ גְּרוּשִׁים. לֹא שָׁכְחוּ שֵׁם אֱלֹהֵיהֶם בְּכָל צָרָתָם כֻּלָּם קְדוֹשִׁים. הָלְכוּ מִדֶּחִי אֶל דֶּחִי מִרְעֶה אֶל רָעָה שָׁלֹשׁ שָׁנִים. כַּסּוּ פְּנֵיהֶם חֲרוּלִים עָלוּ קִמְשׁוֹנִים"- אַבַּרְבַּנְאֵל דְּבָרִים הַקְדָּמָה, וְכֵן:"וְכַאֲשֶׁר הָלַךְ יְרַחְמִיאֵל מֵחַיִל אֶל חַיִל בְּתוֹרָתוֹ, כֵּן הָלְכָה צָפַנְתָּ מִדֶּחִי אֶל דֶּחִי בִּמְזִמַּת לְבָבָהּ" - אַבְרָהָם מַאפּוּ/ עַיִט צָבוּעַ, 48)