Usually means: Rapidly decline or deteriorate financially.
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  1. hit the skids: Merriam-Webster
  2. hit the skids: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hit the skids: Wiktionary
  4. hit the skids: FreeDictionary.org

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▸ verb:  (intransitive, originally US) To fail; to decline.

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skell, fall down, tailspin, slide, slue, slump, fail, decline, slip, hit the dirt, more...

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skell, fall down, tailspin, slide, slue, slump, fail, decline, slip, hit the dirt, more...



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