Meaning: skids

skɪd
n.
one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objectsa restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotationan unexpected slide
v.
slide without controlelevate onto skidsapply a brake or skid tomove obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner

be on the skids Idiom, Proverb

hit the skids

begin to fail, go downhill After losing his job and his wife he hit the skids - became a bum.

skids

drug users, skids A few skids were playing video games at the mall.

put the skids on

Idiom(s): put the skids on (sth)

Theme: FAILURE

to cause something to fail. (Slang.)
• They put the skids on the project when they refused to give us any more money.
• That's the end of our great ideal Somebody put the skids on.

Grease the skids

If you grease the skids, you facilitate something.

On the skids

When things or people are on the skids, they are in serious decline and trouble.

put the skids under

put the skids under
Bring about the failure or defeat of, as in It was lack of funds that put the skids under the new senior center. The skids here are runners or rollers on which a heavy object may be moved. [Colloquial; early 1900s]

be on the skids

To be in accident and acceptable to end or fail. Of advance their accord is on the skids, they action all the time! Our activity is on the abatement because the board pulled their funding.Learn more: on, skid

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put the fear of God into put the lid on put the make on put the skids under put their heads together put to bed put to flight put to good use put to it, be be on the point of (doing something) be on the point of doing something be on the prowl be on the pull be on the radar (screen) be on the ragged edge be on the rampage be on the receiving end be on the right lines be on the right track be on the right/wrong side of 40, 50, etc. be on the right/wrong track be on the rocks be on the ropes be on the run be on the same page be on the same wavelength be on the same wavelength/on different wavelengths be on the say-so of (someone) be on the scene be on the scent be on the scent (of someone or something) be on the scrounge (for something) be on the sick list be on the side of the angels be on the skids be on the square be on the stage be on the straight and narrow be on the table be on the take be on the telephone/phone be on the threshold of (something) be on the threshold of something be on the tip of (one's) tongue be on the tip of your tongue be on the up and up be on the wagon be on the wane be on the warpath be on the watch be on the watch (for someone or something) be on the way in be on the way out be on the way out/in be on the wing be on the wrong end of (something) be on the wrong track be on the/your way to/towards something be on to be on to (someone or something)