Go Down Ten Steps Backward/ to be retrogressing
Figuratively, to fall back noticeably and substantially.
("I will turn back the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the steps of Ahaz in the sun, ten steps backward; and the sun returned ten steps on the steps by which it had gone down" — Isaiah 38:8, and likewise: "In other words, he had formerly been counted among the very wealthy, but now he went down ten steps backward and fell into a tangle of bad business" — Sh. Aleichem / From Milk, Paz, and likewise: "Our material situation, which had gone down ten steps backward, until the gates of earning and faith were closed" — Berdyczewski / Before and Today, d)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
יָרַד עֶשֶׂר מַעֲלוֹת אֲחוֹרַנִּית
Definition (Hebrew)
בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: נָסוֹג לְאָחוֹר בְּצוּרָה נִיכֶּרֶת וְרָבָה.
("הִנְנִי מֵשִׁיב אֶת צֵל הַמַּעֲלוֹת אֲשֶׁר יָרְדָה בְמַעֲלוֹת אָחָז בַּשֶּׁמֶשׁ אֲחֹרַנִּית עֶשֶׂר מַעֲלוֹת וַתָּשָׁב הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ עֶשֶׂר מַעֲלוֹת בַּמַּעֲלוֹת אֲשֶׁר יָרָדָה"- יְשַׁעְיָהוּ לַח ח, וְכֵן:"כְּלוֹמַר, לְשֶׁעָבַר נֶחֱשַׁב בֵּין הָעֲשִׁירִים הַמֻּפְלָגִים, אֲבָל עַכְשָׁו יָרַד עֶשֶׂר מַעֲלוֹת אֲחוֹרַנִּית וּבָא בִּסְבַךְ עֲסָקִים רָעִים"- ש.עֲלֵיכֶם/ מִטְּעָמִים שֶׁל חָלָב, פָּז, וְכֵן:"מַצָּבֵנוּ הַגַּשְׁמִי,אֲשֶׁר יָרַד עֶשֶׂר מַעֲלוֹת אֲחוֹרַנִּית, עַד כִּי שַׁעֲרֵי הַהִשְׂתַּכְּרוּת וְהָאֲמָנָה נִנְעֲלוּ"- בֶּרְדִּיצֶ'בְסְקִי/ לְפָנִים וְהַיּוֹם, ד)