Idiom
go downhill
Meaning
To worsen or degenerate.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My old car is starting to go downhill.”
“After the manager left, the quality of work in the office began to go downhill quickly.”
“The once prosperous town began to go downhill as the local factories closed and the population slowly moved away.”
Examples
simple
“My old car is starting to go downhill.”
contextual
“After the manager left, the quality of work in the office began to go downhill quickly.”
complex
“The once prosperous town began to go downhill as the local factories closed and the population slowly moved away.”
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