circle the drain

Those seem to sell out whether the economy is circling the drain, or not.

This company is running at such a huge loss that it's circling the drain.

No surprise that they’re doing it now, when travel spending is circling the drain.

The company declined, and, by the mid-1990s, it was circling the drain.

Without those things, we're all just circling the drain.

Her character leaves, and I start circling the drain.

Investors hardly needed analysts to tell them that Internet companies were circling the drain.

My own life had never gone more swimmingly, while Terri's was circling the drain.

And if customers were loath to part with four bills in better times, what about when the economy is circling the drain?

Go to some remote corner of the earth where a lot of species are circling the drain.

But that effort is now circling the drain.

Watching your life's work circling the drain can do that to a man, Gold thought, feeling an intense surge of sympathy for his old friend.

At the sight of that brown Pontiac she could feel her mellowness begin to circle the drain.

Italy is circling the drain and now even France is looking weak.

"With the Brown government circling the drain, there is the chance for a genuine new direction for the country," he said.

Chen saw his chances for a Carrera upgrade circling the drain.

Some sales representatives here still say that Asian producers are hurting business, but the industry over all no longer seems to be circling the drain.

Just because the characters waste their time doesn't mean you should waste yours watching them circle the drain.

It's watching this guy circle the drain in his personal life and ultimately find redemption in the most dramatic way.

There are reports the San Francisco Chronicle is circling the drain.

Such species, to borrow a bleak phrase from emergency-room doctors, are circling the drain.

Your health could be circling the drain, too, according to a new study released today in the Journal of Family Practice.

But as our economy continues to circle the drain, will Americans part with their beloved toilet paper in order to adopt more money-saving measures?

Up to the very last moment, they supported a Lehman Brothers that was circling the drain of bankruptcy.

Financially speaking, California is circling the drain.