The word "spiral" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to refer to something that winds around a central point while getting gradually closer to or farther from it. For example, "The leaves on the tree grew in a spiral up the trunk."
In the cycling sense, "nervous" refers to a vicious spiral in which the entire peloton is aware that the safest place to be is in the front 20 or so – this is a basic racing principle taught at junior level – with the upshot that every team leader with a purpose wants to be in the first 20 riders with as many of their team-mates as can manage it.
He warned the bank risked a "death spiral" of staff leaving without the higher bonuses.
Greece's embattled finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, stepped up his war of words with eurozone policymakers on Thursday, saying he wished his country still had the drachma, and would not sign up to any bailout plan that would send his country into a "death spiral".
Jenkins said Barclays had to pay higher bonuses to avoid a "death spiral" at the bank – because staff would walk out if they did not get bigger pay deals.
I do not expect to repeat that", said Jenkins, who had faced criticism for defending the bonus rises as necessary to avoid a "death spiral" of top bankers leaving.
Jenkins, in the face of falling profits, abandoned his "pay for performance" mantra and instead spouted feeble lines about the risk of a "death spiral"– a tired old cliche, as Robert Pickering, successful former boss of Cazenove, said this week.
Last year he capitulated to avoid the risk of what he called a "death spiral" of defections.
3. Get a hobby A good distraction will stop you from going mad at the country's nightmarish spiral into crypto-fascism.
There are wide terracesto take tea on, a spectacular spiral staircase to sweep down and views of the churning sea through walls of glass at every turn.
The bond markets took fright, pushing up the risk premiums on Greek borrowing to exorbitant levels and triggering a spiral of panic and brinkmanship that engulfed Ireland and Portugal and exposed the flimsy foundations of the common currency.
I know that people internalise these things differently and the character was repellent and on a spiral which was stripping him of his humanity.
