auger in
Drill into ground
To auger in is to crash nose-first into the ground, like a drill boring into earth.
The term comes from aviation, describing an aircraft that spirals downward and impacts vertically: The engine failed and the plane augered in.
By extension, it can mean to fail spectacularly or meet a disastrous end: The startup augered in after burning through its funding.
bore
Tiresome individual or drill
ground · hole · spiral · rotate · screw · dig · burrow · tunnel · core · sample
nosedive
Sudden steep descent
plummet · spiral · crash · spin · dive · freefall · cockpit · pilot · altitude · airspeed
flight outcome
auger intouch down
Make contact with ground
stick the landing · pull up · recover · level off · go around