downhill
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3.4
- adverb
- /ˈdaʊnˌhɪl/
- Informal
:
a peor
- My school grades went slowly downhill as I studied less and less.
- go downhill
But no, it's probably all downhill from this very moment.
- But no, it's probably all downhill from this very moment.
- These jokes going downhill as I reached climax.
- This is where it all starts, all of it downhill from here.
- And then it just all went like downhill from there.
- And that really was the beginning of it rolling downhill.
- Once he made that choice, it's it was all downhill.
- Well, I say when it's done, but we're definitely, I feel like we're downhill now.
- And then COVID happened and that's just when everything went like downhill.
Examples
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Everything began to go downhill from there, but I'll recap that whole story another time.
Blog text (7) -
And as the show went on and on, it started going downhill from there.
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But no, it's probably all downhill from this very moment.
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So maybe it's all downhill from here.
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"Things have been going downhill the past few years, sir.
Fiction book (2002) -
After that, things started to go downhill.
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This place has really gone downhill.
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And really, Andrea, it's been downhill since then.
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Over the past five days, he's been going downhill quite rapidly.
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After he lost his job, he felt that everything was going downhill in his life.
Synonyms
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7.8
Becoming worse and returning to an earlier state
Antonyms
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How Bad
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Etymology
A helpful way to remember downhill in this sense is to imagine life as a hill: with down ('toward a lower place') and hill, going downhill means moving into a worse or lower state.