put the skids under someone/something

tv. to cause someone or something to fail. (see also on the skids.) The mayor put the skids under my plan.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Cicely	SIS-ə-lee	English
Kenyon	-	English
Akiba	ah-KEE-vah	Hebrew
SİNem	-	Turkish
Margaretha	mahr-gah-RE-tah (German)	Dutch, German
Ketut	-	Indonesian, Balinese