I found the word, “skyfall” being used in the article of April 18 Nikkei.com. under the title, “What the collapse of the gold bubble tells” with the following lead copy
“International commodity market represented by gold collapsed on April
15th. The collapse was triggered by the dropdown of the economic
growth rates of China which turned out far below the economists’
expectation. The “Skyfall” broke out in the gold market may foretell
the economic boom of new developing countries is coming to a turning
point.
The word “skyfall” is used in English in Japanese text as if it is a stock market jargon.
There is a Japanese word “杞憂-kiyu” – worring about the fall of the sky,” which we borrowed from Chinese proverb, “杞人憂天-Qi ren you tian” that derived from the ancient story of the people of the Qi country very much worried about if the sky should fall on their heads suddenly.
I checked if the “skyfall” is English word or not with CED, OED, Merriam-Webster English Dictionary to find none of them carries this word, nor does Google Ngram register it.
Is “skyfall” used as an English word other than James Bond “007 Skyfall” and its theme music? If it is, can the word, “the sky falls” be associated with anything like a panic or catastrophe as used in the Nikkei article among Anglophones?
Best Answer
The word skyfall is not normally used, except as the title of various works of fiction; it is not a regular noun.
However, the general idea that we would all be in severe trouble if the sky should fall down is widespread and immediately recognised throughout the Western world, including Anglo-Saxon countries. I would expect it to be known in most other cultures too. In Classical Antiquity, it was already commonly referred to, cf. Terence and Aesop.
Note also that the quotation you gave contains a few grammar mistakes: