free fallnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌfriː ˈfɔːl/us/ˌfriː ˈfɑːl/an occasion when something or someone falls quickly under the influence of gravity
informal the process of failing or losing value or strength quickly and continuously:
Only massive changes in government policies will prevent the peso going into free fall (= falling quickly in value by a large amount).
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Failures
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- another/the final nail in the coffin idiom
- breakdown
- car crash
- cock-up
- dead duck
- foul-up
- hash
- lemon
- lost cause
- lulu
- mess
- mess-up
- might-have-been
- parody
- slush pile
- track record
- train wreck
- turkey
- underachiever
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