Kurt Maflin

I was driving in Norway and found myself on pure ice. I lightly pressed the brakes but I still started skidding. The car spun round and round and collided head on with another car coming in the other direction. There was a five or ten-second period where I blacked out.

English Celebrity

Mike Nichols

Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

German Director

Rick Mercer

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

Canadian Comedian

Frederick Banting

I looked at one little print for a long time. It was called 'The Landing.' It showed men tugging on a rope, pulling a boat up onto skids out of the water. The thought occurred to me that I might paint such a picture.

Canadian Scientist

Jim Carrey

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

Patrick Murray

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

British Actor

Robin Williams

I've never been asked to appear on 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!,' so I guess I mustn't be on the professional skids just yet.

American Comedian

Pras Michel

When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row.

Haitian Musician

Isa Guha

People say that because I'm short I get a lot more skid off the pitch.

Eddie Trunk

Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

American Entertainer

Emphasizes loss of traction and control, usually due to external conditions.

Lack of Control

Usually sudden and unintended, often leading to potential danger.

Unexpected Action

Can apply to any moving object, not only vehicles.

Not Just Cars

Skid marks provide clues to an event, like a vehicle stopping quickly.

Evidence of Incident

Often seen as dark lines on surfaces where a skid occurred.

Physical Marks

Implies a sudden stop after quick action or movement.

Swift Ending

Conveys a need to stop immediately, often to prevent something.

Urgent Cessation

Skids are used in logistics and construction for moving large items.

Heavy Object Movement

Serves as a supportive foundation for objects, preventing direct ground contact.

Base Support

Used metaphorically to describe a rapid decline in status or function.

Metaphoric Decline

Highlights a continuous downward trend, not just a single event.

Negative Progression

 a bit of rice as well. And corn, which is originally from that part of the world. And they do "slash and burn" agriculture. They burn, they grow right next to their settlement. Also there is a lot of plantain. They eat so much plantain, it's very dangerous because, you know, you're like, "I'm going to skid on that, you know,

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 talk about regarding trail etiquette always yield to the uphill rider just pull over and let them on by they're climbing and they're working hard you want to be respectful of the trail you don't want to be skidding all over the place or cutting corners or anything like that stay on the trail keep a

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 is just zipping around behind it and eventually the adult just flies out of the water towards the rocks probably launches itself five to ten meters uh through the air skids up onto the rocks runs into a rock and sort of shakes itself off and it's fine and

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 and replace them with a brand new wind or solar farm than just pay the operating costs of that coal plant. So what's going to get stranded next? This is an important question. I think natural gas is next. It's already skidding along at low prices.

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 Or maybe you felt all of these things. There are some emotions which wash the world in a single color, like the terror felt as a car skids. But more often, our emotions crowd and jostle together until it is actually quite hard to tell them apart.

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 over the skids, and he was givena service dog named Gander, a labradoodle, to help him with PTSD and his fear of heights. This is them actually on the first day that they met, which is amazing, and since then, they've spent a lot of time together

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 are exposed to water, they will react violently and skid across the surface of the water with sparks. The scientists then realized that these similiarities are no elements belong to families that share similar properties.

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 today I can see little ripples here and there one of their little boatman or just riders skidding across the water definitely some little midges or flies or sorters or black specks that you can see on the top of the water

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 dogs start barking and skid do they scare off most times dogs like Lola bark as soon as they get a whiff of a beer this gives the researchers time to come out with a flare gun and scare it off

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 so imagine how terrifying it must be for this trucker when he hits his brakes and just keeps going now jump inside the cab and take the wheel would you know how to survive this icy skid