on the slide

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on the slide

  1. in decline
    • 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian[1]:
      The L-shaped shopping parade, which had once wooed custom away from the small shops down the hill, was on the slide, left stranded by changes in consumer habits.
    • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 280:
      Yvonne was on the slide.