on the skids vs sorrow

on the skids

prep
  • In decline; going downhill; in trouble. 

sorrow

noun
  • (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness. 

  • unhappiness, woe 

verb
  • To feel grief over; to mourn, regret. 

  • To feel or express grief. 

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