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go downhill

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go downhill

to gradually become worse. The area has started to go downhill economically in the last ten years. We started to argue soon after we got married, and things went downhill from there.

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The man from Ao-chung clicked the breech-bolt of his gun impatiently, and made as to go downhill. Kim by Kipling, Rudyard View in context More results

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