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go downhill
Idioms and Phrases
Deteriorate, worsen, as in Ever since the recession began, the business has been going downhill . The figurative use of downhill for “decline” dates from the mid-1800s. Also see downhill all the way .Example Sentences
“When he got bit by the gubernatorial bug, things started to go downhill,” says Siegel.
When the dorsolateral PFC goes tilt, things go downhill fast, cognitively speaking.
And when he invites a wheelchair-bound guest to commiserate with him about his bubble-wrapped foot, things go downhill from there.
And, ma'am, I know that his brother will be the ruin of John; he'll go downhill fast, as many a fine young fellow has done.
Since I began to go downhill everybody gives me a kick; you are the first people who have offered me a helping hand.
You are young, and it is my duty to let no young person go downhill without one warning word.
Before they left the summit of the divide to go downhill into the west, they halted for one last look back.
We therefore put brakes of rope under our runners when we were to go downhill.
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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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