GOING DOWNHILL

We sometimes describe a steadily worsening situation as “going downhill.”

 Examples of use:

 “There’s still something alive here, but we’re failing it. It’s going downhill while everyone’s having meetings and conference calls.”

 “The feeling ten years ago was that the town was going downhill, the shops were closing and young people were leaving.”

 “And The Guardian’s Martin Belam pointed out that things started going downhill for the UK in 1999 – the year the rules changed to allow other countries to sing in English, which may have removed an advantage for the UK (and Ireland).”


 The phrase can also be used in a literal sense, as with the cheese rolling race pictured above. You can read about/watch this year’s race down Cooper’s Hill, Gloucestershire, here.

 Photo credit: ultraBobban (Creative Commons)