- take a nose dive
- {v. phr.} To plummet; fall sharply. * /The stock market took a nose dive after the news of the President's heart attack./
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
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take a nose dive — {v. phr.} To plummet; fall sharply. * /The stock market took a nose dive after the news of the President s heart attack./ … Dictionary of American idioms
take\ a\ nose\ dive — v. phr. To plummet; fall sharply. The stock market took a nose dive after the news of the President s heart attack … Словарь американских идиом
nose dive — n. 1) (also fig.) to go into, take a nose dive (stocks took a nose dive) 2) to come out of a nose dive * * * take a nose dive (stocks took a nose dive) (also fig.) to go into to come out of a nose dive … Combinatory dictionary
nose dive — noun a steep nose down descent by an aircraft • Syn: ↑dive, ↑nosedive • Hypernyms: ↑descent • Hyponyms: ↑power dive * * * noun 1 … Useful english dictionary
nose dive — Synonyms and related words: acrobatics, aerobatics, banking, beat down, belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, break, breakdown, cannonball, chandelle, cheapen, cheapening, collapse, comedown, crabbing, crash, crash dive, cropper, cut, cut… … Moby Thesaurus
nose-dive — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To come to the ground suddenly and involuntarily: drop, fall, go down, pitch, plunge, spill, topple, tumble. Idiom: take a fall (or header or plunge or spill or tumble). See RISE. 2. To undergo a sharp, rapid… … English dictionary for students
nose-dive — v plunge, dive, swoop, jackknife, jump headlong or headfirst; pitch, lurch, fall headfirst, take a spill or a fall, tumble, stumble; drop, decline, descend, fall, go down; fall off, worsen, get worse, look bad, go into a tailspin … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
dive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. plunge, dip, swoop; nosedive, power dive; slang, honky tonk. See descent, drinking. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A sudden motion downward] Syn. plunge, leap, spring, nosedive, headlong leap, headlong jump,… … English dictionary for students
dive — Synonyms and related words: abate, ablate, acrobatics, aerobatics, alehouse, bagnio, banking, bar, barrel house, barroom, bate, bathe, bawdyhouse, be eaten away, beat down, beer garden, beer parlor, belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, bistro … Moby Thesaurus
dive — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 of an aircraft ADJECTIVE ▪ steep, vertical ▪ gentle, shallow ▪ spiral VERB + DIVE ▪ … Collocations dictionary
