Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is go into a tailspin and it is a phrase meaning “to fall or deteriorate into a state of increasing chaos/panic; collapse, lose control, become disoriented”.
Example Sentence: “Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and our native Ukraine, their leadership are ordering us to hold new elections,” the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said in a speech. “If we follow their lead, we will go into a tailspin… we will perish (die/disappear) as a people, as a state, as a nation.”
This phrase is present in The The Guardian article ‘We will perish’: embattled Lukashenko sends SOS to Putin and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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