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Both of the government programs were on the skids.
Americans seem to have a lot of trouble grasping this fact, probably because so much public space is taken up by politicians, celebrities and journalists with marriages on the skids.
In this role the rear cabin doors and seats were removed and four troops sat in the rear cabin with their feet resting on the skids.
Donlevy was then really on the skids and didn't care what he was doing.
We're on the skids and nowhere near it.
Debt is at a prodigious level—probably beyond our ability to finance it—and the pound is, in terms, on the skids.
Without it, many sub-postmasters will be on the skids.