handbasket
Idioms about handbasket
go to hell in a handbasket, to degenerate quickly and decisively: The economy has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Origin of handbasket
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How to use handbasket in a sentence
He was this wonderful, elegant man who thought the world was going to hell in a hand basket.
The Stacks: Robin Williams, More Than A Shtick Figure | Joe Morgenstern | August 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn a broken hand-basket in which some old clothes had been dropped, Sandy-face had made her childrens cradle.
The Corner House Girls | Grace Brooks HillThe former came upstairs, carrying a little hand-basket, and she was evidently in a state of great agitation.
Cranford | Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellThe consul recognized the flavor at once,—he had smelled it before in Lieschen's little hand-basket.
Stories in Light and Shadow | Bret HarteFive or six big tit-fish will fill a good-sized hand-basket.
I used to go out in an evening and do the marketing with a hand basket, to get it cheap.
If Only etc. | Francis Clement Philips and Augustus Harris
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