Definition of «vicious spiral»

The phrase "vicious spiral" means a situation where something bad keeps getting worse and harder to stop because it continues to cause more bad things to happen. It is like a cycle that constantly brings negative consequences and makes the situation even worse over time.

Sentences with «vicious spiral»

It shouldn't come as a surprise that, since the financial crisis, central bankers have made it their mission to fight deflation, as a broad drop in demand threatened to pull down prices and profits, in what economists feared would become a vicious spiral. (morganstanley.com)
Thus a vicious spiral of homelessness and alcoholism is established. (religion-online.org)
«Many charge eye - watering rates of interest and drag people into a vicious spiral of debt and despair. (politics.co.uk)
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