Just heard on NPR

[Tony McCoy O'Grady]

Barnhart wrote:

> "We're in a tailspin downwards."
>
> Can a tailspin go any way but downwards?  Is this perhaps a confusion
> or
> mingling of _downward spiral_ and _tailspin_?

When my dog goes into a tailspin he goes in circles, but remains
parallel to the floor!

:-)

Tony McCoy O'Grady
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"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."
.................................................WB Yeats