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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of handbasket1
Idioms and Phrases
- go to hell in a handbasket, to degenerate quickly and decisively:
The economy has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Example Sentences
鈥淲ithout him, America has gone to hell in a handbasket,鈥 Nguyen said.
But mostly he whined about how stupid all the other leaders are and complained about how the country has gone to hell in a handbasket while promising to make America great again.
"I think they thought they could control it, and they realized that their recruiting efforts were going to go to hell in a handbasket if the truth about his death got out," he contended.
鈥淕ivers of Death鈥 belongs to a fascinating subgenre: The world has gone to hell in a handbasket, so what do you hold on to?
Moulton said that the American effort in Afghanistan 鈥渄idn鈥檛 go to hell in a handbasket with the withdrawal鈥 and that the country does not need a 鈥渘arrow investigation focused on just President Biden.鈥
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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