in the wilderness

someone, especially a politician, who is in the wilderness, does not now have the power or influence that they had before He spent several years in the political wilderness after conservatives objected to his attempts to reform the police.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Vesna	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian
TomÁŠ	-	Czech, Slovak
JosemarÍA	-	Spanish
Walenty	vah-LEN-ti	Polish
Trista	TRIS-tə	English
Louise	loo-EEZ (French, English), loo-EE-se (Danish)	French, English, Danish, Swedish, Dutch