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on the skids



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In the process of decline or ruin, as in If she quit now, her career would be on the skids . The skids here are runners such as those on a sled, enabling one to go downhill quickly. [c. 1920]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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