nosedive , also: nose dive

You can keep it running for another two to five years, but then it'll go into a nosedive.

I tried leaving it out and almost took a nosedive.

She then got a job for the first time in her life, only to be laid off when the economy took its nosedive.

Manufacturers will watch as these products do an economic nosedive.

Not at all coincidentally, they also saw his party's support nosedive.

He said the Porsche made a perfect nosedive into the water.

His baseball career took a nosedive when he developed an alcohol problem.

For that matter, the city went into a nosedive.

He went into a major nosedive, started drinking heavily, smoking.

"And the chances they might in the near future just took a nosedive.

"That'll be the star stuff, taking a nosedive into the black hole?"

The ship took a relative nosedive, and for a heartbeat they were in the clear.

The Government's policies have sent the construction industry into a nosedive, brought a 30 per cent.

Nearly half the decline came in the last hour of trading, when the overall market went into a nosedive.

In a column immediately after the event, I used the less formal nosedive.

"We'll either come together and turn it around or we'll take a nosedive."

Crime always takes a nosedive when it gets cold.

Not all dealers blame eBay for the fact that business has taken a nosedive.

Jack's optimism about getting an answer took a nosedive.

The other team member remaining in the plane would be treated to a surprise nosedive.

Milton pushed the control yoke forward and began a nosedive.

"When I walk to the restroom we get into a nosedive," he joked.

My cognitive functions, which had been marginal before, instantly went into a nosedive.

Last week, he jokingly asked reporters not to let him make a panic move in response to the team's nosedive.