The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. -Chambers's Journal.

I'm being squeezed between my job and my volunteer work.

(by extension) Any large pilot-commanded pitch-down motion of an aircraft, often producing negative G-forces and resulting in a large negative change in flightpath angle.

You're a ship's cousin, I tell ye, Master Doo-but-little, roared the steward; some such matter as a ship's cousin, sir..