hit the skids
Example Sentences
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After a brief reprieve, stocks linked to artificial-intelligence trade hit the skids this week, as investors once again shifted their money into anything with a whiff of value.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 13, 2025
But in the course of Neumann’s management, WeWork hit the skids, Neumann found himself pushed out, and the company’s value had slumped to a paltry $9 billion by the time it went public.
From Slate • Feb. 7, 2024
But it hit the skids after a judge raised questions about its terms and appeared to have fallen apart completely when prosecutors said the case was instead headed toward trial in court papers Friday.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2023
The victory was just the Galaxy’s second in their last six MLS games and both have come over Austin, which has suddenly hit the skids, winning just one of its last five.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2022
Othmar Schoeck wrote his first song cycle, “Elegie,” in the early 1920s, as modernism overtook post-Romanticism and as his torrid relationship with the pianist Mary de Senger hit the skids.
From New York Times • May 26, 2022
