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to hell in a handbasket

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inf. к чертям собачьим ("Going to hell in a handbasket", "going to hell in a handcart", "going to hell in a handbag", "go to hell in a bucket", "sending something to hell in a handbasket" and "something being like hell in a handbasket" are variations on an American allegorical locution of unclear origin, which describes a situation headed for disaster inescapably or precipitately • I watched as the guy in charge did nothing and the whole place went to hell in a handbasket.With the way he's running things, the company is going to hell in a handbasket!After our funding was cut, our project went to hell in a handbasket. 4uzhoj)
to hell in a handbasket
: 13 phrases in 6 subjects
American usage, not spelling1
Idiomatic1
Informal4
Makarov4
Slang2
Teenager slang1

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