death spiral

American  

noun

1. (in pair skating) a dramatic movement in which the man spins his partner around him in a gradually increasing radius while he spins in place, holding the extended arm of the woman, who revolves around him on one skate with the other leg stretched out and gradually lowers herself backward until she is just above the ice surface.

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Example Sentences

“Once fund managers realize this they’ll dump the preferreds & $MSTR won’t be able to issue any more, setting off a death spiral.”

From Barron's

“You’re just at this death spiral, essentially,” said Austen Jensen of the Retail Industry Leaders Association, whose members include Walmart and Dollar General.

From The Wall Street Journal

Scientists call this death spiral the human-grass-fire cycle.

From Los Angeles Times

There is a way out of this death spiral.

From Slate

Bollyn certainly offers a striking explanation for the events now taking place before our eyes, the voluntary death spiral into which we, as a nation, have been thrust at least in part by the radical Netanyahu government and his death-cult devotees led by the current American president.

From Salon