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skids

«Driving round a bend and skidding on a mat of dead toads is very unpleasant for all concerned.»
«Consider the lowly word if. If can launch any accusation into the public arena in the guise of fact. If can poison a life as surely as cyanide. Grease a sentence with if and you can skid from speculation to impeachment in the time it takes to say, Tricky Dick.»
«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.»
«Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row.»
«Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...»
«You won't skid if you stay in a rut.»
Author: Kin Hubbard (Humorist, Writer) | Keywords: skid, skidding, skids
«I'm living with skid-marks guy.[Miranda]»