tailspin englannista kaikille kielille - Sanakirja.org (englanti-*)

(aviation) The rapid, uncontrollable descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral.
(figuratively) A severe mental or emotional collapse; emotional breakdown.
(figuratively) Any sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.

Of an aircraft: to go into a rapid, uncontrollable descent in a steep spiral.
(figurative) To go into a sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.

The loss of the third engine threw the plane into a tailspin.
Just hours after leaving the institution, she suffered another tailspin.
The present stock tailspin proves bankruptcy is imminent.
St. Louis, the fourth-largest U.S. city in 1900, is fading fast[...]. Jobs, and airline, an educated population—all gone or in a tailspin.

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