hit the skids
idiom
informal
: to begin to fail or get worse very suddenly and quickly
After he was injured his career hit the skids.
Examples of hit the skids in a Sentence
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Consumer sentiment has also hit the skids, although there were signs of some recovery to end last year.
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Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 19 Feb. 2024
The shock jock and the cable TV provocateur have hit the skids.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2023
The funds’ modus operandi is quite familiar by now: wait for a developing country to hit the skids, move in and buy the country’s debt at a bargain basement price, and then to go to court to sue for full repayment.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2016
But several of those projects have recently hit the skids after executives miscalculated the impact that the pandemic and rising interest rates would have on supply chains.
—Brad Plumer, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
The Russian rouble hit the skids after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
In 2016, Bochy’s Giants entered August leading the NL West, hit the skids halfway through, lost the lead to the Dodgers and had to scramble the rest of the way to make the postseason as a wild card.
—Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
Adding to the gloom: A rare moment of bipartisanship in housing policy appears to have hit the skids.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 19 June 2023
Since then, the relationship has again hit the skids.
—Nate Jones, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 19 Feb. 2024
The shock jock and the cable TV provocateur have hit the skids.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2023
The funds’ modus operandi is quite familiar by now: wait for a developing country to hit the skids, move in and buy the country’s debt at a bargain basement price, and then to go to court to sue for full repayment.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2016
But several of those projects have recently hit the skids after executives miscalculated the impact that the pandemic and rising interest rates would have on supply chains.
—Brad Plumer, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
The Russian rouble hit the skids after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
In 2016, Bochy’s Giants entered August leading the NL West, hit the skids halfway through, lost the lead to the Dodgers and had to scramble the rest of the way to make the postseason as a wild card.
—Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
Adding to the gloom: A rare moment of bipartisanship in housing policy appears to have hit the skids.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 19 June 2023
Since then, the relationship has again hit the skids.
—Nate Jones, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
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