be on the skids
informal US also hit the skidsto experience difficulties and be likely to fail:
Their marriage seems to be on the skids.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
In bad condition
- battered
- battle-scarred
- beat up
- blasted
- brick
- have seen better days idiom
- hors de combat
- impair
- in good, bad, etc. repair idiom
- kaput
- scuff
- shabby
- shattered
- shop-soiled
- shopworn
- worn out
- worse
- worsen
- wrack
- wrecked
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