skids

But neither means engagement is either infeasible or on the skids.

Don and Megan take a trip together, but their marriage hits the skids along the way.

As debt talks hit the skids yet again, the Great Compromiser seemed to finally lose his cool—has he reached his breaking point?

After a public dispute over drone strikes, relations with Washington are on the skids.

But now, like so many newspaper properties and magazines, it has hit the skids.

A few logs rested insecurely on the top skids, and the men put the one Festing had brought below the rest.

"The mud is greasing the skids," said Festing, who began to run down the incline when the man below shouted.

The logs, spread out at intervals, rushed down, rising and falling on the uneven skids.

Next morning he climbed the hill to a level bench where some of his men were busy hauling logs to the top of the skids.

The surface turned black and compressed into ice, and before long rows of heavy logs plunged down the skids.