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41grease the skids — If you grease the skids, you facilitate something. (Dorking School Dictionary) …
42hit the skids — begin to fail, go downhill After losing his job and his wife he hit the skids became a bum …
43on the skids — (of a commercial enterprise) failing A skid is a piece of wood on which an object is placed to facilitate unstoppable movement, such as the launching of a ship: His current affairs flagship World in Action is on the skids. {Private Eye …
44put the skids under — wilfully to cause to fail The imagery is from the way of launching a ship or getting tree trunks to a mill. Once on the skids, the motion cannot be voluntarily arrested …
45grease the wheels (also the skids) informal, — grease the wheels (also the skids) informal, chiefly N. Amer. another way of saying oil the wheels (see oil). → grease …
46be on the skids — informal to be having a lot of problems and be likely to fail. I hear their space programme is on the skids …
47on the skids — informal in a bad situation and likely to fail His business was on the skids …
48hit the skids — ► hit the skids informal begin a rapid decline. Main Entry: ↑skid …
49on the skids — ► on the skids informal in a bad state; failing. Main Entry: ↑skid …
50put the skids under — ► put the skids under informal hasten the decline or failure of. Main Entry: ↑skid …