on the skids
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- (idiomatic) In decline; going downhill; in trouble.
- 1938 June 27, “Work Undone”, in Time[1], archived from the original on 4 May 2008:
- Entering an election year, no Congress obeys a second-term President whose popularity is on the skids.
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Further reading edit
- Jonathon Green (2024) “on the skids”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang