handbasket

[ hand-bas-kit, -bah-skit ]

noun
  1. a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.

Idioms about handbasket

  1. go to hell in a handbasket, to degenerate quickly and decisively: The economy has gone to hell in a handbasket.

Origin of handbasket

1
First recorded in 1485–95; hand + basket

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How to use handbasket in a sentence

  • 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