slide down
Verb
Meaning
fall or sink heavily
Source: WordNetSynonyms
Hypernyms
Examples
We'll slide down the surface of things...
You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.
Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
They oughtta give me the Wurlitzer Prize For all the silver I let slide down the slot. Playin' those songs sung blue That help me remember you. I don't wanna get over you.
Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.
As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.