Usage of "handbasket"

Portuguese

Catalan

Spanish

A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

Synonyms

Examples for "basket"

Examples for "basket"

Horne's basket 46 seconds later gave Virginia Tech the lead for good. 
 Reuters 

The Dish was on the dresser and the Spoon in the basket. 
 More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme 

Turn back the clock 10 years and Sainsbury's was a basket case. 
 The Guardian 

We forgot all about the basket in our interest in the ship. 
 With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War 

I wonder whether privatisation is the only cure for such basket cases. 
 The Guardian 

Usage of handbasket in English

I am old enough to remember the hell-in-a-handbasket conversations on mid-evening television. 
 The Irish Times 

Christ, we aren't going to hell in a handbasket, we're already there. 
 American empire: blood and iron 

Can gaming keep the world from going to hell in a handbasket? 
 The Irish Times 

The world is gong to hell in a handbasket, if you ask me. 
 The Guardian 

Everything was going to hell in a handbasket, seemed to me. 
 Dead to the world 

Man, penmanship in the electronic age had really gone to hell in a handbasket. 
 Hula Done It? 

But we're all in a southbound handbasket together here. 
 Cold Days 

Then, in the space of three months, the world went to hell in a handbasket. 
 News.com.au 

Eve lasted longer then most, but eventually that, too, went to hell in a handbasket. 
 Big bosoms and square jaws 

The whole town goes to hell in a handbasket! 
 The Demon Lover 

This neighborhood's going to heck in a handbasket. 
 One for the money 

With practiced expertise, the old man caught them one at a time in a small handbasket. 
 In the shadow of the cypress 

Would you like to know how fast the world is going to Hell in a handbasket? 
 Wired 

Country going to hell in a handbasket. 
 Warlord: an alex hawke novel 

Ever since we put a man on the moon the whole planet's gone to heck in a handbasket. 
 Three to get deadly and four to score 

They don't want to give it up even if the economy is going to hell in a handbasket. 
 Wired 

handbasket

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Translations for handbasket

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Handbasket through the time

Meanings of handbasket in English