Voorbeelden van on the skids

• Without it, many sub-postmasters will be on the skids.

• Debt is at a prodigious level—probably beyond our ability to finance it—and the pound is, in terms, on the skids.

• We're on the skids and nowhere near it.

• Donlevy was then really on the skids and didn't care what he was doing.

• 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.

• 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.