go into a tailspin

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go into a tailspin

to quickly become worse. The country's nickel industry went into a tailspin, with production falling for five years in a row. His career went into a tailspin when he joined the New York Mets.

Usage notes: sometimes used to describe someone's mental condition: I imagine the news sent Barry into a tailspin.

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of tailspin (= a sudden fall by an aircraft in which the back points up and the aircraft turns around and around)

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Is this the beginning of the end and the market is going to go into a tailspin, or is this part of the normal cycle - a bit of a lull - and the market will continue to do what it's been doing? REALTORS MUST THINK BIG IN ASSESSING HOUSING MARKET by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) Greatly reduce that interval and watch your "not-taken" rate go into a tailspin. Making producers happy: introducing teleunderwriting can drop cycle ... by George, Hank / Best's Review It's natural, when the person perceived as a leader goes down, for everybody else to sort of go into a tailspin," says Thomas Lakeman, senior vice president of production with Culver City-based Internet content developer Digital Planet Inc. Lack of advertiser support spelled end for TV-like series on the Web by Turner, Dan / Los Angeles Business Journal More results

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Is this the beginning of the end and the market is going to go into a tailspin, or is this part of the normal cycle - a bit of a lull - and the market will continue to do what it's been doing?

REALTORS MUST THINK BIG IN ASSESSING HOUSING MARKET by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Greatly reduce that interval and watch your "not-taken" rate go into a tailspin.

Making producers happy: introducing teleunderwriting can drop cycle ... by George, Hank / Best's Review

It's natural, when the person perceived as a leader goes down, for everybody else to sort of go into a tailspin," says Thomas Lakeman, senior vice president of production with Culver City-based Internet content developer Digital Planet Inc.

Lack of advertiser support spelled end for TV-like series on the Web by Turner, Dan / Los Angeles Business Journal

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