kids will be kids イディオム

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"

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]

kids will be kids

Kids behave childishly or immaturely by nature, so it is unrealistic to apprehend otherwise. A: "I aloof can't assume to get Billy to stop acrimonious on his little sister." B: "Well, kids will be kids, so what can you do?"Learn more: kid, will

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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