skid Идиома

hit the skids

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

skid row

area of a city where many people live who have no money and drink a lot of alcohol The skid row of our city is very depressing with the large number of drunk people around.

skidaddle

leave, go, off with you, vamoose """Get out of here! Skidaddle!"" the old man shouted at the boys."

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.

Twenty three skidoo

To be turned away.

skid lid|lid|skid

n., slang A crash helmet worn by motorcyclists and race drivers. How much did you pay for that handsome skid lid?

skid row|row|skid

n. The poor part of a city where men live who have no jobs and drink too much liquor. That man was once rich, but he drank and gambled too much, and ended his life living on skid row. The Bowery is New York City's skid row.

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]

skid

skid
In addition to the idiom beginning with skid, also see on the skids; put the skids on; put the skids under.