(of a person or their career) in a bad state; failing.
‘I was on the skids but now I'm doing all right’
‘By 1924, though, his career was long since on the skids, confined mostly to supervision of films.’
‘If there is enough opposition, and if that opposition is sufficiently vociferous, then he is going to fear that his career is on the skids.’
‘As Beck suggests, getting a chance is usually the most difficult hurdle on the path toward coming back for a player whose career has been on the skids.’
‘So, one would assume that her international career is well and truly on the skids, Miles.’
‘Well you don't sense you're on the skids obviously.’
‘It is not just newspaper circulation and fixed line phone calls which are on the skids in Australia, snail mail is also starting to contract at gathering speed.’
‘In the cartoon, Death goes on a mini-adventure that leads him to alcohol and love, ending with our poor skeleton friend living life on the skids.’
‘Within 10 months, the internet firm was on the skids.’
‘Dennis Hope, a formerly unemployed ventriloquist, was on the skids in 1980.’
‘Why is our economic and emotional health on the skids?’
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