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When falling and failing merge into one aerodynamic event.
means A sudden, steep plunge — literal or figurative — where something goes from fine to disastrous almost instantly.
from Straight out of early aviation: a 'nosedive' was literally a plane dropping nose-first toward the ground, the term taking off (so to speak) in the early 20th century as flight itself became common. Within a few decades people had already borrowed it for anything that crashes fast — stock prices, reputations, moods — keeping the same sickening sense of losing control on the way down.
- origin
- literally a plane dropping nose-first
- figurative use
- since 1920s, for stocks and reputations
- black mirror episode
- named this, about social score collapse
- physics note
- gravity does the work, you just panic