Tailspin

The shenanigans on Wall Street have sent the economy into a tailspin.

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.

But I was reading a statement that either you made or was part of your movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”, and it said we have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.

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.