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Definition of Downhill

Downhill

  1. Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
  2. Declivous; descending; sloping.
  3. Declivity; descent; slope.

Downhill Quotations

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
Theodore White

Golf is a better game played downhill.
Jack Nicklaus

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.
Lauren Bacall

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.
Harvey Pekar
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Downhill Translations

downhill in German is bergab
downhill in Spanish is cuesta abajo

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