go to hell in a hand basket Idiom, Proverb

a basket case

a person who is very nervous, in bad shape If Gloria has one more crisis, she'll be a basket case.

all your eggs in one basket

depending on one plan or one investment, hedge your bets If you invest all your money in one hotel, you'll have all your eggs in one basket.

basket case

(See a basket case)

breadbasket

stomach, belly The ball hit him just below his chest - right in the breadbasket.

don't put all your eggs in one basket

do not invest all the money in one company Balance your investments. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

go to hell in a handbasket

go to hell feeling peaceful or unconcerned, ignorance is bliss We don't get involved in issues. We're wasting our lives and going to hell in a handbasket!

basket

a euphemism for a bastard

put all one's eggs in one basket

Idiom(s): put all one's eggs in one basket

Theme: RISK

to risk everything at once. (Often negative.)
• Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Then everything won't be lost if there is a catastrophe.
• John only applied to the one college he wanted to go to. He put all his eggs in one basket.

go to hell in a hand-basket

Idiom(s): go to hell in a hand-basket

Theme: RUIN

to become totally worthless; to go to (hell). (Informal. Use hell with caution. Not used as a command.)
• The whole country is going to hell in a hand-basket.
• Look at my lawn—full of weeds. It's going to hell in a hand-basket.

Put all your eggs in one basket

Risk everything by relying on one plan (by putting all one's money in one business).

go to hell in a handbasket

To be in an acutely and added bad or annihilative condition; to be on the assured aisle to absolute abortion or ruin. With the way he's active things, the aggregation is activity to hell in a handbasket! After our allotment was cut, our activity went to hell in a handbasket.Learn more: go, handbasket, hell

go to hell in a handbasket

abide a accelerated action of deterioration. North American informal This announcement has been recorded back the aboriginal 20th century; variants of it accommodate go to hell in a handcart and go to hell in a basket . 1990 Nature Conservancy I apprehend broadly on ecology issues and generally feel that ‘the apple is activity to hell in a handbasket’. Learn more: go, handbasket, hell

go to hell in a handbasket, to

To adulterate rapidly. This expression, basic in America in the aboriginal twentieth century, owes its address to alliteration. It additionally makes sense: article agitated in a handbasket is ablaze and calmly conveyed, beginning the byword can beggarly activity to ruin calmly and rapidly. However, added acceptable it is artlessly an alliterative addition of gone to hell, which has meant broke or destroyed back the aboriginal nineteenth century. The cliché tends to be activated to ample generalities, as in “The abridgement is about to go to hell in a handbasket.” Learn added go to the devil; go(ing) to the dogs.Learn more: go, hell

go to hell in a handbasket

Heading for trouble. The announcement ability possibly accept been aggressive by the active of decapitated prisoners falling or actuality dumped into handbaskets or handcarts. The “handbasket” adumbration afterward “going to hell” bent on and was activated to anyone whose behavior was acceptable to advance to an black consequence.Learn more: go, handbasket, hell

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Out of sight, out of mind. Penny wise, pound foolish. People who live in glass houses should not throw Practice makes perfect. Practise what you preach Prevention is better than cure Pride comes before a fall. Procrastination is the thief of time Put all your eggs in one basket Revenge is sweet. Rome was not built in a day. Save me from my friends. Saying is one thing, doing is another. Short reckonings make long friends. Snug as a bug in a rug. Spare the rod and spoil the child Sticks and stones will break my bones but names w go to bat for somebody go to bat for someone go to bed go to bed with go to bed with (one) go to bed with somebody go to bed with the chickens go to bed with the sun go to blazes Go to blazes! go to Canossa go to Davy Jones's locker go to earth go to earth/ground go to extremes go to glory go to great lengths go to great lengths (to do something) go to ground go to head go to heaven in a wheelbarrow go to hell go to hell and back go to hell in a bucket go to hell in a handbasket go to hell in a hand-basket go to hell in a handbasket, to go to hell in a handcart go to it go to Jericho go to law go to meet (one's) maker go to one's head go to one's head, to go to pieces go to pot go to press go to press with go to press with (something) go to rack and ruin go to reward go to sea go to see a man about a dog go to seed go to show go to sleep go to the bathroom go to the bother go to the bother of (doing something) go to the bother to (do something) go to the country