on the skids

on the skids informalin a situation that is bad and getting worse处境越来越坏:•He's been on the skids since losing his job.他丢了工作以后，境况越来越糟。 on the skids informal (of a person or their career) in a bad state; failing 〈非正式〉（人, 职业）陷入困境; 失败的。

• amphichrome
• aminourea
• calibration curves
• suprarenal glands
• Phyllodocidae
• short-term memory
• glutathione peroxidases
• radioecology
• packs
• audition
• air sucker
• atwt
• lenticulate
• biomembrane
• equinoctial storms
• lie off
• intubates
• solifluctional
• special agents
• within four walls
• gratulation
• inscrutably
• evacs
• reign of terror
• generator set
• cac-
• Chac
• Morse potential
• enactor
• not know whether(或if) one is coming or going
• of（a） like mind
• pass the time of day (with sb)
• tomatilloes
• idealisations
• impresario
• in the books
• microseisms
• royal palms
• typhoid bacillus
• anatosauri
• swot up on
• byzantine empires
• track road
• nonrecombinants
• trouble spot
• mirror-shades group
• working week
• road roller
• the top is asleep
• cardboard cities
• world-wise
• soil colloid
• aliener
• acyl-coenzyme A
• naprapaths
• amesace
• impedance coupling
• cytopyge
• particularism
• T-men
• in heart
• be the better for
• equilateral
• kidling
• judge's order
• lacuna
• erred
• decertified
• full house
• holopulping process
• pass over in silence
• I'm not being funny (but)
• astatic
• more - than someone has had hot dinners
• paneers
• Lombrosian school
• guardhouse lawyer
• dentifrices
• recidivist
• get a laugh
• nilgaus
• triallelic
• be addressed to
• toss sth / sb ↔ out
• monoamine oxidases
• photomicrography
• Peyer's patch
• Trojan
• give one's right arm to have something
• cloud echo
• leucoplasts
• Pax Russo-Americana
• penning gate
• pidgin
• freeway
• squamulate
• All Fools' Day
• territorial waters
• curter
• Saracen