slide down

slide down

1. To maintain smooth, continual contact while moving down (something). Come on, just grab the pole and slide down! The crate fell out of the truck and slid the whole way down the hill.
2. To cause someone or something to move down or along (something) while maintaining smooth, continual contact. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "slide" and "down." The wardrobe is too heavy to lift, so just slide it down the stairs. She hooked the bag onto the zipline and slid it down to the people below.
3. To move something down and inside of some article of clothing. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "slide" and "down." She slapped him in the face when he tried to slide his hand down her shirt. The clump of snow fell on the nape of my neck and slid down my jacket.
See also: down, slide
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

slide down something

to slip down something, such as a pole. The fire captain slid down the pole and ran to the engine. Please don't slide down the stairs. You'll ruin the carpet.
See also: down, slide
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • come a gutser
  • be down to (one)
  • be down to somebody/something
  • be down to something
  • be down to (do something)
  • bounce up and down
  • close down
  • close down and shut down
  • come a cropper
  • come a-cropper
References in periodicals archive
After that, Wetherspoons wound a long length of thick rope over the top of the banisters, making it impossible to slide down them.
Micky Moore has suggested Solihull Borough are suffering from "West Ham Syndrome" after their slide down the table.
He'd jump off on the tranny and slide down that thing?
The life lessons come fast and thick here, but they slide down smoothly, thanks to the compelling characters and realistic situations.
Avalanches are masses of snow and ice that slide down mountains.
Then he grabs my shoulders to push me lightly until I pick up a little speed and slide down the sand for a few seconds.
While proponents saw the "local option" as a compromise, which would have allowed lay and clergy on both sides of the issue to live and function together until a greater consensus could be achieved, the concession was seen by the opposition as "blessing sin" and therefore as a precipitous slide down the slippery slope of moral accommodation, not only with culture and society, but with the law of the land.
Adding an iron salt to the mixture caused the rings to slide down onto the balls' surfaces, sealing in the light-emitting cargo.
They rediscover hope." He hopes the Church will work to officially study and publish the message of Medjugorje, which becomes even more urgent as we slide down the slippery slope of secularism.
He says that if an employee says he or she doesn't like to wear safety glasses because they slide down the nose, then buy them a strap for the back.
But the company has convinced the city that with a tipping fee that will slide down (once paper is included in its mix), it can guarantee to handle materials for less than the cost of shipping them to increasingly more distant landfills.
"Stuffing an object in your nose could cause breathing difficulties." And if the snake were to slide down Mano's esophagus--he'd have a dangerous bellyful!
To install the system, the user bolts the slide down. It can be fitted to unmachined surfaces, if necessary.
On the way down, Huff and another hiker opted for a shortcut, and while traversing an icy stretch Huff slipped, taking himself and his friend for a slide down the ice sheet.