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IDs Idiom

AIDS

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - a disease of the immune system Recently the number of AIDS patients has been increasing rapidly in many countries.

change horses in midstream

make new plans or choose a new leader in the middle of an important activity They have decided to change lawyers but I told them that they shouldn

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.

drop the kids off at the pool

to defecate:"Yo slice, I gotta drop the kids off at the pool. I'll be back in a minute"

zeltoids

pot; weed; marijuana; "Got any zeltoids?"

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.

Bouquet of orchids

Id someone deserves a bouquet of orchids, they have done something worthy of praise.

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.

Quids in

(UK) If somebody is quids in, they stand to make a lot of money from something.

change horses in midstream|change|change horses in

v. phr. To make new plans or choose a new leader in the middle of an important activity. When a new President is to be elected during a war, the people may decide not to change horses in the middle of a stream.

change horses in midstream, don't

change horses in midstream, don't
Also, don't swap horses in midstream. It's unwise to alter methods or choose new leaders during a crisis, as in I don't hold with getting a new manager right now—let's not swap horses in midstream. This expression was popularized (although not originated) by Abraham Lincoln in a speech in 1864 when he discovered that the National Union League was supporting him for a second term as President.

don't change horses at midstream

don't change horses at midstream
see change horses in midstream, don't.

in the midst

in the midst
1) Also, in one's midst. Surrounded by, among, as in I saw a familiar face in the midst of the crowd, or To think there was a Nobel Prize winner in our midst! [c. 1500s]
2) See in the middle of, def. 1.

midst

midst
1.
in our (or your or their) midst
among us (or you or them)
2.
in the midst of
1) in the middle of; surrounded by
2) in the course of; during
3.
in our (or your or their) midst
among us (or you or them)
4.
in the midst of
1) in the middle of; surrounded by
2) in the course of; during

midstream

midstream
see change horses in midstream, don't.

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]