encouragement vs on the skids

encouragement

noun
  • Words or actions that increase someone's confidence 

  • Something that incites, supports, promotes, protects or advances; incentive 

  • The feeling of being encouraged 

  • The act of encouraging 

on the skids

prep
  • In decline; going downhill; in trouble. 

How often have the words encouragement and on the skids occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )