Related Clues:

• Used a firehouse pole, e.g.
• Lacked traction
• Dropped sharply
• Didn't have traction
• Keeled over
• Went down like a cement block
• Slithered
• Took a spill
• Approached the plate
• Lost seaworthiness
• Skidded
• Made like the Titanic
• What the Lusitania did
• Brought to ruin
• At one __ swoop