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To: ggersh who wrote (31596)	11/2/2010 10:23:13 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71454

"HIT THE SKIDS - Also "on the skids." One reference says these expressions relate to 'Skid Row,' a 1920s term for the center for down-and-outers, alcoholics, tramps and other poor and homeless people. It comes from ".late 19C logging jargon 'skid road,' a grassed track over which logs were hauled towards the river that would float them down to the sawmill: c1915 the term was extended into sl. to mean that part of town where loggers spent their free time or lived when they were out of work. It was the latter meaning, with its added implication of a man, rather than a log, who was 'skidding downhill' economically that dominated the usage in the 1930s when 'skid road' became 'skid row'." "Cassell's Dictionary of Slang" by Jonathon Green (Wellington House, London, 1998)." webcache.googleusercontent.com