의미: skids

skid n.

1 [보통 pl.] (무거운 물건을 굴릴 때 까는) 활재(滑材), 굴대, 침목(枕木)

2 (자동차 바퀴의) 미끄럼을 막는 제동(制動) 장치

3 (자전거·바퀴 등의) 미끄럼, 옆으로 미끄러짐

4 【항해】 방현재(防舷材); 받침대

5 【항공】 (헬리콥터 착륙용) 활주부(滑走部), 썰매

6 [the skids] 《미·속어》 파멸[실패, 패배]의 길
hit the skids 《속어》 파멸[실패]하다
on the skids 《미·속어》 파멸[실패, 타락, 빈곤]로 접어 든; 해고당한 것 같은; 내리막 길에 있는
put the skids under[on] ... 《구어》 (1) …을 서둘게 하다 (2) 실패[좌절]케 하다
━ v. (skid·ded; skid·ding) vi.

1 (브레이크를 건 채) 미끄러지다, <비행기가> 밖으로 미끄러지다

2 《미·구어》 <물가 등이> 급속히 떨어지다

3 《영·속어》 물러가다, 떠나다
━ vt.

1 활재 위에 놓(고 끌)다; 《미》 <목재 등을> 끌어 나르다

2 (바퀴에) 미끄럼 방지를 하다

3 옆으로[밖으로] 미끄러지게 하다

skids 관용구

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]

More Idioms/Phrases

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

English Vocalbulary

skied skier skiers skies skiey skiff skiffs skig skiing skijoring skilful skill skill less skilled skilled hand skilled labor skilless skillet