Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is go into a tailspin and it is a phrase meaning “(for an aircraft) to lose control and fall very rapidly in a spiral movement with its back end (tail) spinning in the sky and its front end (nose) hitting the ground; to collapse, to lose control, to become disoriented, to fall apart”.
Example Sentence: This helicopter programme cannot go into a tailspin… After two accidents in a short span of time, possible flaws in India’s Advanced Light Helicopter programme need to be fixed quickly… What caused a brand-new helicopter with less than 600 hours of flight to forceland into the sea off Mumbai is now under investigation by a naval board of inquiry (BoI)…
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Courtesy: The Hindu
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