go downhill
Meaning: To get steadily worse.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Example: “The restaurant went downhill after the chef left.”
Category: Nature
Origin: Like something rolling down a slope. The figurative use is found from the 19th century.
Equivalents in other languages
- French: Filer un mauvais coton — literally: To spin a bad cotton
More idioms — Nature
- clear as day — Completely obvious.
- grow like wildfire — To spread very fast.
- blow me down — An exclamation of complete surprise.
- be over the moon — Absolutely delighted.
- green with envy — Extremely jealous.
- put down roots — To settle somewhere permanently.
More English idioms
- have the luck of the devil — To be extraordinarily lucky.
- hightail it — To leave in a great hurry.
- diddly-squat — Nothing at all.
- take a hike — Go away; get lost.
- have a nerve — To be rude or bold in a way that shocks others.
- nobody's fool — A sensible person who is not easily tricked.