| 单词 | to go to hell in a handbasket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go to hell in a handbasket (also handcart, etc.) k. Originally and chiefly North American. to go to hell in a handbasket (also handcart, etc.) : to deteriorate, esp. rapidly. Also to send to hell in a handbasket and other variants. ΚΠ 1865 I. W. Ayer Great North-Western Conspiracy ix. 47 Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would ‘send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket’. 1898 W. C. Brann Brann the Iconoclast I. 227 These are the unhung idiots who imagine that a nation..would go to hell in a handbasket if it adopted an independent currency system. 1969 E. Connell Mr Bridge xcix. 261 Virgil says the country is going to hell in a basket. Is that so? 1974 Times 19 Jan. 2/4 No amount of dithering and double talk..could disguise the fact that the British economy was going to hell in a handcart. 2004 G. Nunberg Going Nucl. Introd. p. xii The language is going to hell in a handbasket. < as lemmas |
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