Double dip

If a recession is bad, imagine coming out of a recession only to plunge into another one. That is a ‘double dip’, which sounds like a) an extra coating of sherbert on your liquorice stick, or b) a pornographic exercise indulged in by decadent plutocrats to whom ‘austerity’ does not apply. Still more perverted — or perhaps delicious — is the prospect of a ‘triple dip’.

Report forecasting ‘double-dip recession’ in Spain

UK ‘on brink of triple-dip recession’

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