on the skids
Example Sentences
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But with his memory on the skids, how long can that last?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
Musk’s stated rationale for putting the deal on the skids, to whatever extent he can do that, is equally farcical.
From Slate • Jul. 7, 2022
Alan and Heather Kelly's Dundee motorcycle school is on the skids.
From BBC • Jul. 9, 2020
Her travels took her from international movie sets to the Calcutta missions of Mother Teresa, from vivid high school prom portraits to a homeless family struggling on the skids of Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2015
A few years later I saw a long range of them enjoying their last repose on the skids in a navy-yard; and a bystander, with equal truth and irreverence, called them pop-guns.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
